Flint, E;
Cummins, S;
Sacker, A;
(2014)
Associations between active commuting, body fat, and body mass index: population based, cross sectional study in the United Kingdom.
BMJ
, 349
g4887.
10.1136/bmj.g4887.
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Abstract
To determine if promotion of active modes of travel is an effective strategy for obesity prevention by assessing whether active commuting (walking or cycling for all or part of the journey to work) is independently associated with objectively assessed biological markers of obesity.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Associations between active commuting, body fat, and body mass index: population based, cross sectional study in the United Kingdom. |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.g4887 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g4887 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. |
| Keywords: | Bicycling, Body Fat Distribution, Body Mass Index, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Great Britain, Health Surveys, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Multivariate Analysis, Transportation, Walking |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1470589 |
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