Physical Activity Epidemiology

Question 1

. Physical activity define

Answer 1

Physical actvity: ususage of your skeletal muscles to alter the position of your body

Question 2

physical fitness

Answer 2

improving muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, body composition, and cardiovascular endurance

Question 3

exercise

Answer 3

planned structured and repeititve

Question 4

the 5 general components of physical fitness

Answer 4

improving muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, body composition, and cardiovascular endurance

Question 5

What are the US Physical Activity Guidelines and Healthy People 2020 physical activity
recommendations for adults and for children?

Answer 5

Adults: 30 minutes a day 5 days a week moderate to vigorous intensity
children: 60 minutes 5 days a week, moderate to vigorous activity

Question 6

Differentiate between acute exercise and chronic exercise and between aerobic exercise and
resistance exercise.

Answer 6

Acute: short period of time (a one time thing: going to the gym once)
chronic: over longer periods of time (going to the gym every day)
aerobic: endurance and cardiovascular(all forms of exercises are aerobic since you always are need of oxygen to function)
anaerobic: less oxygen available in body, harder to develop energy
resistance: moving weight that strains muscle

Question 7

What is meant by the FITT principle as it relates to exercise prescription

Answer 7

Frequency
Intensity
Time
Type

Question 8

Measuring the intensity of physical activity poses one of the greatest challenges for surveillance and
intervention studies. How are light, moderate, and vigorous intensity activities typically defined (in
METs)? What is a MET?

Answer 8

Met is the metabolic equivilent of a task, they are defined in # MET. for example 1 Met is being at rest and sitting
2 METS is lightly walking
3 METS is moderate activity
4 METS is vigorous activity

Question 9

what are the leading non-communicable diseases?

Answer 9

heart disease, diabetes, cancer, Chronic repotory disease, ASthma, diabetes

Question 10

What were the general findings from the London conductor and bus driver epidemiological studies?

Answer 10

those with professions which include alot of mobility such as train conductors who move around alot, tend to have a longer life-span and overall better health

Question 11

9. Who is considered the father of physical activity epidemiology?

Answer 11

jeremy N norris

Question 12

10. What were the studies that established critical relationships between work-related physical activity,
    leisure-time physical activity, and cardiorespiratory fitness with morbidity and mortality associated
    with cardiovascular disease?

Answer 12

san francisco long-shoremen

Harvard alumni

cooper institute

Question 13

. More recently, experts are concerned about a troubling human behavior that was not captured in the
original epidemiological studies of physical activity and exercise. What is this behavior?

Answer 13

sedentary behavior, which is a direct result of technological advancements, office jobs, etc/…

Question 14

What is the nature of the relationship between sitting, cardiorespiratory fitness, and moderate-to vigorous physical activity with the relative risk for all-cause mortality?

Answer 14

as sitting increases CR fitness decreases MTV physical activity decreases, and risk for all -cause mortality increases