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Michael F. Leitzmann
Researcher at University of Regensburg
Publications - 328
Citations - 26560
Michael F. Leitzmann is an academic researcher from University of Regensburg. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Prospective cohort study. The author has an hindex of 73, co-authored 285 publications receiving 20783 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael F. Leitzmann include United States Department of Health and Human Services & Harvard University.
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World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour
Fiona Bull,Salih Saad Al-Ansari,Stuart J. H. Biddle,Katja Borodulin,Matthew P. Buman,Greet Cardon,Catherine Carty,Jean-Philippe Chaput,Sebastien F. M. Chastin,Roger Chou,Paddy C. Dempsey,Loretta DiPietro,Ulf Ekelund,Ulf Ekelund,Joseph Firth,Christine M. Friedenreich,Leandro Martin Totaro Garcia,Muthoni Gichu,Russell Jago,Peter T. Katzmarzyk,Estelle V. Lambert,Michael F. Leitzmann,Karen Milton,Francisco B. Ortega,Chathuranga Ranasinghe,Emmanuel Stamatakis,Anne Tiedemann,Richard P. Troiano,Hidde P. van der Ploeg,Vicky Wari,Juana Willumsen +30 more
TL;DR: New WHO 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour reaffirm messages that some physical activity is better than none, that more physical Activity is better for optimal health outcomes and provide a new recommendation on reducing sedentary behaviours.
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Overweight, Obesity, and Mortality in a Large Prospective Cohort of Persons 50 to 71 Years Old
Kenneth F. Adams,Arthur Schatzkin,Tamara B. Harris,Victor Kipnis,Traci Mouw,Rachel Ballard-Barbash,Albert R. Hollenbeck,Michael F. Leitzmann +7 more
TL;DR: Excess body weight during midlife, including overweight, is associated with an increased risk of death in men and women in the National Institutes of Health–AARP cohort who were 50 to 71 years old at enrollment in 1995–1996.
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Physical activity and television watching in relation to risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus in men.
Frank B. Hu,Michael F. Leitzmann,Meir J. Stampfer,Graham A. Colditz,Walter C. Willett,Eric B. Rimm +5 more
TL;DR: Increasing physical activity is associated with a significant reduction in risk for diabetes, whereas a sedentary lifestyle indicated by prolonged TV watching is directly related to risk.
Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution
Iris M. Heid,Anne U. Jackson,Joshua C. Randall,Thomas W. Winkler,Lu Qi,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Gudmar Thorleifsson,M. Carola Zillikens,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Reedik Maegi,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Charles C. White,Nabila Bouatia-Naji,Tamara B. Harris,Sonja I. Berndt,Erik Ingelsson,Cristen J. Willer,Michael N. Weedon,Jian'an Luan,Sailaja Vedantam,Tõnu Esko,Tuomas O. Kilpelaeinen,Zoltán Kutalik,Shengxu Li,Keri L. Monda,Anna L. Dixon,Christopher Holmes,Lee M. Kaplan,Liming Liang,Josine L. Min,Miriam F. Moffatt,Cliona Molony,George Nicholson,Eric E. Schadt,Krina T. Zondervan,Mary F. Feitosa,Teresa Ferreira,Hana Lango Allen,Robert J. Weyant,Eleanor Wheeler,Andrew R. Wood,Karol Estrada,Michael E. Goddard,Guillaume Lettre,Massimo Mangino,Dale R. Nyholt,Shaun Purcell,Albert V. Smith,Peter M. Visscher,Jian Yang,Steven A. McCarroll,James Nemesh,Benjamin F. Voight,Devin Absher,Najaf Amin,Thor Aspelund,Lachlan J. M. Coin,Nicole L. Glazer,Caroline Hayward,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Åsa Johansson,Toby Johnson,Marika Kaakinen,Karen Kapur,Shamika Ketkar,Joshua W. Knowles,Peter Kraft,Aldi T. Kraja,Claudia Lamina,Michael F. Leitzmann,Barbara McKnight,Andrew P. Morris,Ken K. Ong,John R. B. Perry,Marjolein J. Peters,Ozren Polasek,Inga Prokopenko,Nigel W. Rayner,Samuli Ripatti,Fernando Rivadeneira,Neil R. Robertson,Serena Sanna,Ulla Sovio,Ida Surakka,Alexander Teumer,Sophie van Wingerden,Veronique Vitart,Jing Hua Zhao,Christine Cavalcanti-Proença,Peter S. Chines,Eva Fisher,Jennifer R. Kulzer,Cécile Lecoeur,Narisu Narisu,Camilla H. Sandholt,Laura J. Scott,Kaisa Silander,Klaus Stark,Mari-Liis Tammesoo,Tanya M. Teslovich,Nicholas J. Timpson,Richard M. Watanabe,Ryan P. Welch,Daniel I. Chasman,Mark E. Cooper,John-Olov Jansson,Johannes Kettunen,Robert Lawrence,Niina Pellikka,Markus Perola,Liesbeth Vandenput,Helene Alavere,Peter Almgren,Larry D. Atwood,Amanda J. Bennett,Reiner Biffar,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Stefan R. Bornstein,Thomas A. Buchanan,Harry Campbell,Ian N.M. Day,Mariano Dei,Marcus Doerr,Paul Elliott,Michael R. Erdos,Johan G. Eriksson,Nelson B. Freimer,Mao Fu,Stefan Gaget,Eco J. C. de Geus,Anette P. Gjesing,Harald Grallert,Juergen Graessler,Christopher J. Groves,Candace Guiducci,Anna-Liisa Hartikainen,Neelam Hassanali,Aki S. Havulinna,Karl-Heinz Herzig,Andrew A. Hicks,Jennie Hui,Wilmar Igl,Pekka Jousilahti,Antti Jula,Eero Kajantie,Leena Kinnunen,Ivana Kolcic,Seppo Koskinen,Peter Kovacs,Heyo K. Kroemer,Vjekoslav Krzelj,Johanna Kuusisto,Kirsti Kvaløy,Jaana Laitinen,Olivier Lantieri,G. Mark Lathrop,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Robert Luben,Barbara Ludwig,Wendy L. McArdle,Anne Marie McCarthy,Mario A. Morken,Mari Nelis,Matt Neville,Guillaume Paré,Alex N. Parker,John F. Peden,Irene Pichler,Kirsi H. Pietiläinen,Carl G. P. Platou,Anneli Pouta,Martin Ridderstråle,Nilesh J. Samani,Jouko Saramies,Juha Sinisalo,Jan Smit,Rona J. Strawbridge,Heather M. Stringham,Amy J. Swift,Maris Teder-Laving,Brian Thomson,Gianluca Usala,Joyce B. J. van Meurs,Gert-Jan B. van Ommen,Vincent Vatin,Claudia B. Volpato,Henri Wallaschofski,G. Bragi Walters,Elisabeth Widen,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,Daniel R. Witte,Lina Zgaga,Paavo Zitting,John Beilby,Alan L. James,Mika Kähönen,Terho Lehtimäki,Markku S. Nieminen,Claes Ohlsson,Lyle J. Palmer,Olli T. Raitakari,Paul M. Ridker,Michael Stumvoll,Anke Toenjes,Jorma Viikari,Beverley Balkau,Yoav Ben-Shlomo,Richard N. Bergman,Heiner Boeing,George Davey Smith,Shah Ebrahim,Philippe Froguel,Torben Hansen,Christian Hengstenberg,Kristian Hveem,Bo Isomaa,Torben Jørgensen,Fredrik Karpe,Kay-Tee Khaw,Markku Laakso,Debbie A Lawlor,Michel Marre,Thomas Meitinger,Andres Metspalu,Kristian Midthjell,Oluf Pedersen,Veikko Salomaa,Peter Schwarz,Tiinamaija Tuomi,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Timo T. Valle,Nicholas J. Wareham,Alice M. Arnold,Jacques S. Beckmann,Sven Bergmann,Eric Boerwinkle,Dorret I. Boomsma,Mark J. Caulfield,Francis S. Collins,Gudny Eiriksdottir,Vilmundur Gudnason,Ulf Gyllensten,Anders Hamsten,Andrew T. Hattersley,Albert Hofman,Frank B. Hu,Thomas Illig,Carlos Iribarren,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,W. H. Linda Kao,Jaakko Kaprio,Lenore J. Launer,Patricia B. Munroe,Ben A. Oostra,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Peter P. Pramstaller,Bruce M. Psaty,Thomas Quertermous,Aila Rissanen,Igor Rudan,Alan R. Shuldiner,Nicole Soranzo,Tim D. Spector,Ann-Christine Syvänen,Manuela Uda,André G. Uitterlinden,Henry Voelzke,Peter Vollenweider,James F. Wilson,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,Alan F. Wright,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Michael Boehnke,Ingrid B. Borecki,Panos Deloukas,Timothy M. Frayling,Leif Groop,Talin Haritunians,David J. Hunter,Robert C. Kaplan,Kari E. North,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,Leena Peltonen,David Schlessinger,David P. Strachan,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Themistocles L. Assimes,H-Erich Wichmann,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Kari Stefansson,L. Adrienne Cupples,Ruth J. F. Loos,Inês Barroso,Mark I. McCarthy,Caroline S. Fox,Karen L. Mohlke,Cecilia M. Lindgren +299 more
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Exercise type and intensity in relation to coronary heart disease in men
Mihaela Tanasescu,Michael F. Leitzmann,Eric B. Rimm,Walter C. Willett,Meir J. Stampfer,Frank B. Hu +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed the amount, type, and intensity of physical activity in relation to risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) among men among a cohort of 44,452 US men enrolled in the Health Professionals' Follow-up Study.