The relationships among leisure time activities, maximum oxygen consumption, lipid levels and percentage body fat in a group of sedentary office workers.

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Title The relationships among leisure time activities, maximum oxygen consumption, lipid levels and percentage body fat in a group of sedentary office workers.
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Nursing
Department Nursing
Author Quaal, Susan J.
Contributor Davis, Byron
Date 1980-06
Description Relationships between leisure-time physical activity, maximum oxygen consumption (VMO2) lipid levels, blood pressure, and percent body fat were investigated in 50 sedentary mail office workers. Physical fitness, as evaluated by the Fisher-Fairbanks Walking Test showed a small, but statistically significant positive correlation with High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol (r=.33). Total Activity Metabolic Index also demonstrated a small but statistically significant correlation with HDL cholesterol (r=.20). Body composition may reflect to an extent, level or regular physical activity or fitness, since caloric expenditure is a determinant of fat deposition in or removal adipose tissue. Maximum VO2 showed a negative correlation with percent body fat (r=-.35). In the multivariate analysis, knowledge of cholesterol, VLDL, diastolic pressure of total Activity Metabolic Index (AMI) added no prediction beyond VO2, HDL and VLDL (r=.085) for determining placement in physical fitness categories.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Fats; Oxgen in the Body
Subject MESH Coronary Disease; Lipoproteins; Lipoproteins, HDL; Lipoproteins, VLDL
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "The Relationships among leisure time activities, maximum oxygen consumption, lipid levels and percentage body fat in a group of sedentary office workers." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "The Relationships among leisure time activities, maximum oxygen consumption, lipid levels and percentage body fat in a group of sedentary office workers." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. RA 4.5 1980 Q83.
Rights Management © Susan J. Quaal.
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Identifier us-etd2,267
Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
Funding/Fellowship The Deseret Foundation LDS Hospital grant.
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Setname ir_etd
ID 194038
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6d512m7
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