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Physical Activity, Chronic Disease Risk in Native Americans Assessed

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 1st, 1999

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers conducted a study of leisure-time (LTPA), occupational, transportation, and household physical activity among participants in the Inter-Tribal Heart Project (ITHP).

They evaluated these patterns of physical activity based on age-stratified random samples of people 25 years or older from three communities of Chippewa and Menominee Indians in Minnesota and Wisconsin (n=1,344: 843 women and 501 men). The study subjects completed an interviewer-administered questionnaire. Age-adjusted associations between no reported LTPA and potential correlates were evaluated by logistic regression analyses.

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