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
Obesity and prognosis in chronic diseases--impact of cardiorespiratory fitness in the obesity paradox.
TL;DR: Obesity has a surprising association with prognosis in patients with established diseases, often showing an “obesity,” and the critical role that fitness plays to alter the relationship between adiposity and subsequent prognosis is summarized.
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The impact of changes in coffee consumption on serum cholesterol
TL;DR: This is the first follow-up study correlating change in coffee consumption with change in serum cholesterol in a large group of men and women and no change in cholesterol level was found among those continuing to consume the same quantity of regular coffee compared to those who never drank coffee.
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Body adiposity index and incident hypertension: the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study.
Diego Moliner-Urdiales,Enrique G. Artero,Xuemei Sui,Vanesa España-Romero,Duck-chul Lee,Steven N. Blair +5 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that in order to predict incident hypertension BAI could be considered as an alternative to traditional body adiposity measures.
Exercise training and habitual physical activity: a randomized controlled trial.
Damon L. Swift,Neil M. Johannsen,Catrine Tudor-Locke,Conrad P. Earnest,William D. Johnson,Steven N. Blair,Martin Sénéchal,Martin Sénéchal,Timothy S. Church +8 more
TL;DR: In postmenopausal women, higher habitual physical activity while participating in aerobic training was associated with greater reductions in central adiposity, and was supportive of weight loss compared to lower levels.
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