Ulf Ekelund

Research interests

Publications

• Vigorous Intermittent Lifestyle Physical Activity and Cancer Incidence Among Nonexercising Adults

  JAMA Oncology · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.1830

• Daily steps and all-cause mortality: a meta-analysis of 15 international cohorts

  The Lancet Public Health · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s2468-2667(21)00302-9

• Physical activity and the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, severe COVID-19 illness and COVID-19 related mortality in South Korea: a nationwide cohort study

  British Journal of Sports Medicine · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2021-104203

• Daily energy expenditure through the human life course

  Science · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abe5017

• Physical activity behaviours in adolescence: current evidence and opportunities for intervention

  The Lancet · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(21)01259-9

• A standard calculation methodology for human doubly labeled water studies

  Cell Reports Medicine · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2021.100203

• New global guidelines on sedentary behaviour and health for adults: broadening the behavioural targets

  International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-020-01044-0

• 2020 WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour for children and adolescents aged 5–17 years: summary of the evidence

  International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-020-01037-z

• Variations in accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time across Europe – harmonized analyses of 47,497 children and adolescents

  International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-020-00930-x

• World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour

  British Journal of Sports Medicine · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-102955

• Advancing the global physical activity agenda: recommendations for future research by the 2020 WHO physical activity and sedentary behavior guidelines development group

  International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-020-01042-2

• Dose-response associations between accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time and all cause mortality: systematic review and harmonised meta-analysis

  BMJ · 2019 · 10.1136/bmj.l4570

• Sitting Time, Physical Activity, and Risk of Mortality in Adults

  Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2019.02.031

• Is the time right for quantitative public health guidelines on sitting? A narrative review of sedentary behaviour research paradigms and findings

  British Journal of Sports Medicine · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2018-099131

• Rapid Rule-out of Acute Myocardial Infarction With a Single High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T Measurement Below the Limit of Detection

  Annals of Internal Medicine · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.7326/m16-2562

• Accelerometer Data Collection and Processing Criteria to Assess Physical Activity and Other Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Practical Considerations

  Sports Medicine · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-017-0716-0

• Does physical activity attenuate, or even eliminate, the detrimental association of sitting time with mortality? A harmonised meta-analysis of data from more than 1 million men and women

  The Lancet · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(16)30370-1

• Objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time in youth: the International children’s accelerometry database (ICAD)

  International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity · 2015 · 10.1186/s12966-015-0274-5

• Physical activity and all-cause mortality across levels of overall and abdominal adiposity in European men and women: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Study (EPIC)

  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.114.100065

• Physical activity levels in three Brazilian birth cohorts as assessed with raw triaxial wrist accelerometry

  International Journal of Epidemiology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyu203

• Age Group Comparability of Raw Accelerometer Output from Wrist- and Hip-Worn Monitors

  Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2014 · 10.1249/mss.0000000000000289

• Separating Movement and Gravity Components in an Acceleration Signal and Implications for the Assessment of Human Daily Physical Activity

  PLoS ONE · 2013 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0061691

• Guide to the Assessment of Physical Activity: Clinical and Research Applications

  Circulation · 2013 · 10.1161/01.cir.0000435708.67487.da

• Global physical activity levels: surveillance progress, pitfalls, and prospects

  The Lancet · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(12)60646-1

• A systematic review of reliability and objective criterion-related validity of physical activity questionnaires

  International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity · 2012 · 10.1186/1479-5868-9-103

• Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity and Sedentary Time and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children and Adolescents

  JAMA · 2012 · 10.1001/jama.2012.156

• Cohort Profile: Updating the cohort profile for the MRC National Survey of Health and Development: a new clinic-based data collection for ageing research

  International Journal of Epidemiology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyq231

• The ABC of Physical Activity for Health: A consensus statement from the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences

  Journal of Sports Sciences · 2010 · 10.1080/02640411003671212

• Temporal trends in physical activity in England: The Health Survey for England 1991 to 2004

  Preventive Medicine · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2006.12.014

• Physical activity and clustered cardiovascular risk in children: a cross-sectional study (The European Youth Heart Study)

  The Lancet · 2006 · 10.1016/s0140-6736(06)69075-2

• TV Viewing and Physical Activity Are Independently Associated with Metabolic Risk in Children: The European Youth Heart Study

  PLoS Medicine · 2006 · 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030488

• Reliability and validity of the combined heart rate and movement sensor Actiheart

  European Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 2005 · 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602118

• Physical Activity Levels and Patterns of 9- and 15-yr-Old European Children

  Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2004 · 10.1249/01.mss.0000106174.43932.92

• International Physical Activity Questionnaire: 12-Country Reliability and Validity

  Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1249/01.mss.0000078924.61453.fb

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