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Contemporaneous Assessment Of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior And Sleep Using An Actigraph GT3X+ Accelerometer

  • Presented on June 18, 2013

Introduction Physical activity (PA), sedentary behavior (SB) and sleep form the behavioral tripartite of energy expenditure and appear inter- and independently related to cardiometabolic disease and cancer. The ability to collect valid data on all three behaviors contemporaneously using one type of accelerometer is important because it may improve our ...