Biological, psychological, behavioral, and social factors are unable to fully explain or curtail the obesity epidemic. The goal of this paper is to provide a review of research on the influence of the built environment ...

Background: Neighborhood environment factors may influence physical activity (PA). The purpose of this study was to develop and test a brief instrument to systematically document and describe the type, features, amenities, ...

Aging, heart failure and diabetes each compromise the matching of O2 delivery (QO2)-to-metabolic requirements (O2 uptake, VO2) in skeletal muscle such that the O2 pressure driving blood-myocyte O2 flux (microvascular PO2, ...

A validated expeditious method is needed to determine critical speed (CS) and the finite distance that can be covered above CS (D`). We tested the hypothesis that a single all-out 3-min running test would accurately determine ...