Patterns, levels and correlates of self-reported physical activity in urban black Soweto women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Urban black South African women have a high prevalence of non-communicable diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. The aim of this study was to assess the physical activity patterns of a cohort of middle-aged urban-dwelling black African women and to determine if physical activity is associated with anthropometric measures and metabolic outcomes in this population.

Methods

Physical activity and sitting time were assessed using the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ) in a cross-sectional study of 977 black African women (mean age 41.0 ± 7.84 years) from the Birth to Twenty study based in Soweto, Johannesburg. Anthropometric outcomes were measured and fasting blood glucose, insulin and lipid profile were analysed to determine metabolic disease risk a

SUBMITTER: Gradidge PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4176558 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature