An epidemiological perspective of the relationship between physical activity and NIDDM: From activity assessment to intervention

Physical activity, exercise, and physical fitness: definitions and distinctions for health-related research.

1985 • 8,319 citations

Classification and Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus and Other Categories of Glucose Intolerance

1979 • 4,730 citations

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AS AN INDEX OF HEART ATTACK RISK IN COLLEGE ALUMNI1

1978 • 1,991 citations

A questionnaire for the assessment of leisure time physical activities

1978 • 1,818 citations

Physical Activity and Reduced Occurrence of Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

1991 • 1,662 citations

CORONARY HEART-DISEASE AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OF WORK

1953 • 1,627 citations

Physical Activity and the Incidence of Coronary Heart Disease

1987 • 1,471 citations

Physical activity and incidence of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in women

1991 • 1,174 citations

Prevention of Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus by diet and physical exercise The 6-year Malm� feasibility study

1991 • 1,112 citations

ASSESSMENT OF HABITUAL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BY A SEVEN-DAY RECALL IN A COMMUNITY SURVEY AND CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS

1985 • 1,105 citations

Prevalence of Diabetes and Impaired Glucose Tolerance and Plasma Glucose Levels in U.S. Population Aged 20–74 Yr

1987 • 1,072 citations

Metabolic Implications of Body Fat Distribution

1991 • 1,053 citations

The Influence of Body Fat Distribution on the Incidence of Diabetes Mellitus: 13.5 Years of Follow-up of the Participants in the Study of Men Born in 1913

1985 • 981 citations

The determinants of physical activity and exercise.

1985 • 936 citations

A method to assess energy expenditure in children and adults

1983 • 908 citations

Development of Questionnaire to Examine Relationship of Physical Activity and Diabetes in Pima Indians

1990 • 740 citations

Human Energy Expenditure

1955 • 717 citations

Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews

1986 • 684 citations

Assessment of physical activity in epidemiologic research: problems and prospects.

1985 • 603 citations

A prospective study of exercise and incidence of diabetes among US male physicians

1992 • 600 citations

Work Activity and Coronary Heart Mortality

1975 • 592 citations

Energy Metabolism: Tissue Determinants and Cellular Corollaries

1992 • 582 citations

THE STRONG HEART STUDY A STUDY OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN AMERICAN INDIANS: DESIGN AND METHODS

1990 • 569 citations

DIABETES INCIDENCE IN PIMA INDIANS: CONTRIBUTIONS OF OBESITY AND PARENTAL DIABETES1

1981 • 564 citations

Determinants of physical activity and interventions in adults

1992 • 562 citations

Epidemiology of Diabetes and Its Vascular Lesions.

1979 • 559 citations

A descriptive epidemiology of leisure-time physical activity.

1985 • 523 citations

How Much Physical Activity is Good for Health?

1992 • 489 citations

Biology of regional body fat distribution: Relationship to non‐insulin‐dependent diabetes mellitus

1989 • 393 citations

Marked Improvement in Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism in Diabetic Australian Aborigines After Temporary Reversion to Traditional Lifestyle

1984 • 392 citations

Kelly West Lecture 1991 Challenges in Diabetes Epidemiology—From West to the Rest

1992 • 338 citations

Exercise as an adjunct to weight loss and maintenance in moderately obese subjects

1989 • 333 citations

Relationship of obesity to diabetes: Influence of obesity level and body fat distribution,

1983 • 332 citations

Risk factors for Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus. Thirteen and one-half years of follow-up of the participants in a study of Swedish men born in 1913

1988 • 319 citations

Abdominal obesity and the development of noninsulin‐dependent diabetes mellitus

1988 • 305 citations

The ten-year follow-up of the Bedford Survey (1962?1972): Glucose tolerance and diabetes

1982 • 294 citations

Obesity in the Pima Indians: its magnitude and relationship with diabetes

1991 • 290 citations

Women walking for health and fitness. How much is enough?

1991 • 284 citations

Effects of Physical Training and Diet Therapy on Carbohydrate Metabolism in Patients with Glucose Intolerance and Non-insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus

1984 • 274 citations

Physical training and insulin sensitivity

1986 • 267 citations

Studies on the mechanism of improved glucose control during regular exercise in Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes

1984 • 261 citations

Injuries and adherence to walk/jog and resistance training programs in the elderly

1991 • 259 citations

Assessment methods for physical activity and physical fitness in population studies: Report of a NHLBI workshop

1986 • 250 citations

Guidelines for Graded Exercise Testing and Exercise Prescription.

1977 • 248 citations

THE ASSESSMENT OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BY QUESTIONNAIRE

1986 • 241 citations

Abdominal Obesity and Physical Inactivity as Risk Factors for NIDDM and Impaired Glucose Tolerance in Indian, Creole, and Chinese Mauritians

1991 • 234 citations

Effects of Exercise on Glucose Tolerance and Insulin Resistance

1986 • 228 citations

Pathophysiology of obesity

1992 • 228 citations

The epidemiology and natural history of niddm–lessons from the South Pacific

1990 • 217 citations

Worsening to diabetes in men with impaired glucose tolerance (?borderline diabetes?)

1979 • 207 citations

PREVALENCE OF DIABETES AND IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE IN THE BIRACIAL (MELANESIAN AND INDIAN) POPULATION OF FIJI: A RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON

1983 • 207 citations

High Prevalence of NIDDM and Impaired Glucose Tolerance in Indian, Creole, and Chinese Mauritians

1990 • 200 citations

Women Walking for Health and Fitness

1991 • 194 citations

Exercise in a behavioural weight control programme for obese patients with Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes

1988 • 190 citations

Influence of Physical Training on Blood Glucose Control, Glucose Tolerance, Insulin Secretion, and Insulin Action in Non-insulin-dependent Diabetic Patients

1984 • 183 citations

Epidemiologic Studies of Diabetes in the Pima Indians

1976 • 182 citations

Diabetes Mellitus and Its Vascular Complications in Japanese Migrants on the Island of Hawaii

1979 • 181 citations

Test-retest reliability of the Minnesota Leisure Time Physical Activity Questionnaire

1986 • 178 citations

Cardiovascular benefits and assessment of physical activity and physical fitness in adults

1992 • 167 citations

Effect of past and concurrent body mass index on prevalence of glucose intolerance and Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes and on insulin response

1986 • 166 citations

Physical Training and Glucose Tolerance in Middle-aged Men with Chemical Diabetes

1979 • 159 citations

Habitual physical activity, aerobic capacity and metabolic control in patients with newly-diagnosed Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus: effect of 1-year diet and exercise intervention

1992 • 157 citations

An Introduction to Epidemiologic Methods

1984 • 147 citations

The association of physical activity with obesity, fat distribution and glucose intolerance in Pima Indians

1993 • 140 citations

THE SPECTRUM OF PHYSICAL ACTVITY, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND HEALTH: AN EPIDEMIOLOGIC PERSPECTIVE

1984 • 138 citations

The Prevalence of Diabetes in the Rural and Urban Polynesian Population of Western Samoa

1981 • 130 citations

Role of Obesity and Fat Distribution in Non-insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus in Mexican Americans and Non-Hispanic Whites

1986 • 128 citations

Physical activity and prevalence of diabetes in Melanesian and Indian men in Fiji

1984 • 118 citations

A randomized exercise trial in older women

1986 • 115 citations

Measurement of physical activity in population studies: a review.

1984 • 115 citations

EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH ASPECTS OF NON-INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS

1989 • 102 citations

Physical training as treatment for Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes in elderly men. A feasibility study over 2 years

1987 • 99 citations

A Controlled Randomized Study on the Effect of Long‐term Physical Exercise on the Metabolic Control in Type 2 Diabetic Patients

1986 • 94 citations

Daily physical activity, work capacity and glucose tolerance in lean and obese normoglycaemic middle-aged men

1981 • 88 citations

Lower Prevalence of Diabetes in Female Former College Athletes Compared With Nonathletes

1986 • 87 citations

THE ECONOMY OF MUSCULAR EXERCISE

1936 • 87 citations

Exercise and NIDDM

1990 • 82 citations

Physical Training and Changes in Regional Adipose Tissue Distribution

1987 • 80 citations

RISK FACTORS FOR DIABETES IN THREE PACIFIC POPULATIONS

1984 • 75 citations

Decreased physical activity in Pima Indian compared with Caucasian children.

1993 • 75 citations

Non-insulin-dependent Diabetes (NIDDM) in a Newly Independent Pacific Nation: The Republic of Kiribati

1984 • 69 citations

Kelly West Lecture: Primary Prevention of Type II Diabetes Mellitus

1991 • 66 citations

The status of the 1990 objectives for physical fitness and exercise.

1986 • 64 citations

Weight maintenance and resting metabolic rate 18-40 months after a diet/exercise treatment.

1990 • 64 citations

Prevalence and risk factors of diabetes mellitus in the rural region of Mali (West Africa): a practical approach

1987 • 63 citations

Effects of exercise training on glucose control, lipid metabolism, and insulin sensitivity in hypertriglyceridemia and noninsulin dependent diabetes mellitus

1991 • 62 citations

Effect of Habitual Physical Activity on Age‐Related Glucose Intolerance

1989 • 53 citations

The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveys: IV. The Descriptive Epidemiology of Exercise

1987 • 53 citations

Community-Based Exercise Intervention: Zuni Diabetes Project

1987 • 51 citations

Low physical activity and worsening of glucose tolerance: results from a 2-year follow-up of a population sample in Malta

1991 • 49 citations

Nutrition, Weight Control, and Exercise

1988 • 46 citations

Can Life‐styles of Subjects With Impaired Glucose Tolerance Be Changed? A Feasibility Study

1992 • 43 citations

The Relation of Physical Activity to Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Mauritians

1991 • 39 citations

Relationship of physical activity, glucose tolerance, and weight management

1984 • 39 citations

Prevention of Type II Diabetes by Physical Training: Epidemiological considerations and study methods

1992 • 37 citations

Can Body Fat Patterning Be Changed?

1987 • 37 citations

The Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus in a Traditional-Living Polynesian Population: The Wallis Island Survey

1983 • 32 citations

Habitual Physical Activity and Glucose Tolerance: Males Age 16–64 in a Total Community

1977 • 29 citations

Physical Activity, Glucose Tolerance, and Diabetes Mellitus: the Whitehall Study

1986 • 28 citations

Physical fitness, insulin secretion, and glucose tolerance in healthy males and mild type-2 diabetes

1983 • 26 citations

Glucose Tolerance and Physical Activity in a Health Survey of Middle‐aged Subjects

1985 • 26 citations

Exercise Treatment in Diabetes Mellitus

1985 • 22 citations

Factors Related to Diabetes Mellitus in Puerto Rican Men

1979 • 22 citations

Physical training in the prophylaxis and treatment of obesity, hypertension and diabetes.

1983 • 20 citations

Diabetic Microangiopathy

1964 • 13 citations

Factors related to diabetes mellitus in Puerto Rican men

1979 • 11 citations

Habitual physical activity and glucose tolerance. Males age 16-64 in a total community

1977 • 11 citations

Comparative Observation of Micro- and Macroangiop-athies in Japanese Diabetics in Japan and U.S.A.

2015 • 2 citations