Physical activity levels in American and Japanese men from the ERA-JUMP Study and associations with metabolic syndrome

• Main Authors: Naoko Sagawa (Author), Bonny Rockette-Wagner (Author), Koichiro Azuma (Author), Hirotsugu Ueshima (Author), Takashi Hisamatsu (Author), Tomoko Takamiya (Author), Aiman El-Saed (Author), Katsuyuki Miura (Author), Andrea Kriska (Author), Akira Sekikawa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a global health problem. Physical activity (PA) is a known modifiable risk factor for MetS and individual MetS components. However, the role of PA could differ between sub-populations due to differences in the variability of PA and other MetS risk factors. To...