In industrialized nations like the United States and Sweden, the vast majority of adults do not
meet the physical activity guidelines of 150 minutes per week. 1 Inactive lifestyles put most …

Many studies utilizing dogs, cats, birds, fish, and robotic simulations of animals have tried to
ascertain the health benefits of pet ownership or animal‐assisted therapy in the elderly …

2354 Circulation June 11, 2013 owners and nonowners had similar systolic blood
pressures, and those with pets had slightly higher diastolic blood pressures. 16 The only …

A considerable body of literature has investigated how environmental exposures affect
health through various pathways. These studies have generally adopted a common …

Reasoned action approaches have primarily been applied to understand exercise
behaviour for the past three decades, yet emerging findings in unconscious and Dual …

Objective. We examined whether older persons who live in areas that are conducive to
walking are more active or less obese than those living in areas where walking is more …

Few studies compare alternative measures of land use diversity or mix in relationship to
body mass index. We compare four types of diversity measures: entropy scores (measures …

Background The built environment may influence health in part through the promotion of
physical activity and exposure to pollution. To date, no studies have explored interactions …

Walking is an important source of outdoor physical activity among elderly people. In order to
devise measures aimed at encouraging walking among the elderly it is important to …

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the association between neighborhood walkability and
depression in older adults. DESIGN: Cross‐sectional analysis using data from Adult …