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Identifying Patients at Risk for Cardiometabolic and Chronic Diseases by Using the Exercise Vital Sign to Screen for Physical Inactivity
ORIGINAL RESEARCH — Volume 22 — January 2, 2025
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Distribution of self-reported days of physical activity per week and minutes of physical activity per day for patients identified as inactive (0 minutes per week), insufficiently active (1-149 minutes of activity per week), and active (150+ minutes of activity per week). Insufficiently active patients most commonly reported engaging in 2 or 3 days of activity per week and 30 minutes of activity per day. Active patients most commonly reported engaging in 5 days of activity per week and 60 minutes of activity per day.
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Distribution of activity level among 7,261 patients who were screened with the Exercise Vital Sign at a at a large midwestern university hospital, 2017–2022.
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