Surgery is a common first-line treatment for many types of disease, including cancer.
Mortality rates after general elective surgery have seen significant decreases whilst …

The emergence of drug resistance is a substantial obstacle to the effective management of
breast cancer, which is the primary cause of cancer-related deaths in women worldwide. To …

Introduction There is a paucity of literature on optimal patterns of daily walking following joint
arthroplasty, which are now evaluated with consumer technologies like smartphones, and …

Background Despite the health benefits, cancer survivors tend to exercise less after
diagnosis and treatment. Wearable activity trackers (WATs) can provide avenues for self …

Energy expenditure (EE) is often used to quantify physical activity. Currently, EE is estimated
with data collected by inertial measurement units or depth cameras and verified by oxygen …

Tennis is a popular leisure sport, and studies have indicated that playing tennis regularly
provides many health benefits. We aimed to clarify the characteristics of physical activity …

Early observations that only a small proportion of United States (US) adults were engaging
in enough aerobic physical activity to provide substantial health benefit helped shape our …

This dissertation explored associations between wrist-worn accelerometer-measured
physical activity behaviors (ie, physical activity and sedentary time) and all-cause mortality …

Background: Examining the joint effects of cognitive function (CF) and sedentary time (ST)
may provide insight into the complex mechanisms underlying mortality risk within older …