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ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 308-317Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1010539510379394
Keywords
physical activity; body composition; risk factor; cardiovascular disease; measurement; developing countries
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- Atlantic Philanthropies Inc, USA
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This study examined physical activity in leisure time and at work as estimated by the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ) and the associations between both total and domain-specific physical activity with cardiovascular risk factors in a population-based Vietnamese sample. Participants (n = 1978) were 25- to 64-year-old adults selected by stratified multistage sampling. Leisure activity contributed to <5% of total moderate and vigorous activity and was not associated with cardiovascular risk factors. Total moderate and vigorous activity was associated with body composition (r = -0.16 to 0.22; P < .001), blood glucose (r = -0.07; P < .05), and total cholesterol (r = -0.17; P < .001) for men and with total cholesterol (r = -0.07; P < .05) for women after adjusting for age. Further adjustment for smoking and alcohol intake made negligible changes. These associations were largely driven by work activity, which accounted for 80% of total activity.
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