Steven N. Blair
University of South Carolina
892 Papers
6.9K Citations
Steven N. Blair is an academic researcher from University of South Carolina. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Physical fitness. The author has an hindex of 165, co-authored 879 publications. Previous affiliations of Steven N. Blair include Stanford University & University of Western Australia.
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Papers
Rates and Risks for Running and Exercise Injuries: Studies in Three Populations
TL;DR: Rates of exercise injuries were relatively low and risk of injury in participants starting a walking, running, or jogging program was associated with age, sex, body mass index, flexibility, cardiorespiratory endur...
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The safety of maximal exercise testing.
TL;DR: Maximal exercise testing appears safer than some previously published reports have suggested and seems to be getting safer with time.
Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome across cardiorespiratory fitness levels in women.
TL;DR: Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome was markedly lower across progressively higher levels of CRF in women of different age strata, and modest increases in CRF among low fit women may ameliorate the metabolic Syndrome in some instances.
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The effect of resistance exercise on all-cause mortality in cancer survivors.
Justin P. Hardee,Ryan R. Porter,Xuemei Sui,Edward Archer,I-Min Lee,Carl J. Lavie,Carl J. Lavie,Steven N. Blair +7 more
- 01 Aug 2014
TL;DR: The present findings provide preliminary evidence for benefits of RE during cancer survival, and future randomized controlled trials examining RE and its effect on lean body mass, muscular strength, and all-cause mortality in cancer survivors are warranted.
The inverse relationship between number of steps per day and obesity in a population-based sample – the AusDiab study
Terence Dwyer,David W. Hosmer,Trina Hosmer,Alison Venn,Christopher L. Blizzard,Robert H Granger,Jennifer Cochrane,Steven N. Blair,Jonathan E. Shaw,Paul Zimmet,David W. Dunstan +10 more
TL;DR: Pedometer measures of activity indicate that the inverse association between recent PA and obesity is logarithmic in form with the greatest impact for a given arithmetic step number increase seen at lower levels of baseline activity.
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