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Andrea M. Kriska is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in the field of medicine, with a particular focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, and endocrinology.

Their work covers a range of subfields including:

  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • General Health Professions
  • Physiology
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

Kriska's research topics include:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet

The scientist has a strong publication record with key papers such as:

  • The Impact of Physical Activity on the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes: Evidence and Lessons Learned From the Diabetes Prevention Program, a Long-Standing Clinical Trial Incorporating Subjective and Objective Activity Measures (2020, Diabetes Care)
  • Association Between Walking for Exercise and Symptomatic and Structural Progression in Individuals With Knee Osteoarthritis: Data From the Osteoarthritis Initiative Cohort (2022, Arthritis & Rheumatology)
  • Association of Intensive Lifestyle and Metformin Interventions With Frailty in the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (2021, The Journals of Gerontology Series A)
  • Cardiovascular health in early adulthood predicts the development of coronary heart disease in individuals with type 1 diabetes: 25 year follow-up from the Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications study (2020, Diabetologia)
  • Effect of Timing and Coordination Training on Mobility and Physical Activity Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults (2022, JAMA Network Open)

Kriska frequently collaborates with other researchers including:

  • Bonny Rockette-Wagner
  • Rachel G. Miller
  • Lora E. Burke
  • Vincent C. Arena
  • Susan M. Devaraj

Research outputs have appeared in various prominent publication venues, notably:

  • Circulation
  • Contemporary Clinical Trials
  • Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
  • Diabetes
  • UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • Physical Activity and Public Health: A Recommendation From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine

    Russell R. Pate;Michael Pratt;Steven N. Blair;William L. Haskell

  • Effect of Weight Loss With Lifestyle Intervention on Risk of Diabetes

    Richard F. Hamman;Rena R. Wing;Sharon L. Edelstein;John M. Lachin

  • Reproducibility and Validity of a Self-Administered Physical Activity Questionnaire

    Anne M Wolf;David J Hunter;David J Hunter;Graham A Colditz;Graham A Colditz;Joann E Manson

  • Decline in physical activity in black girls and white girls during adolescence.

    Sue Y.S. Kimm;Nancy W. Glynn;Andrea M. Kriska;Bruce A. Barton

  • Development of questionnaire to examine relationship of physical activity and diabetes in Pima Indians.

    Andrea M Kriska;William C Knowler;Ronald E LaPorte;Allan L Drash

  • Achieving weight and activity goals among diabetes prevention program lifestyle participants.

    Rena R Wing;Richard F Hamman;George A Bray;Linda Delahanty

  • Physical activity levels before and after a diagnosis of breast carcinoma: The health, eating, activity, and lifestyle (HEAL) study

    Melinda L. Irwin;Diane Crumley;Anne McTiernan M.D.;Leslie Bernstein

  • Association of the magnitude of weight loss and changes in physical fitness with long-term cardiovascular disease outcomes in overweight or obese people with type 2 diabetes: a post-hoc analysis of the Look AHEAD randomised clinical trial.

    Edward Gregg;John Jakicic;George Blackburn

  • Introduction to a Collection of Physical Activity Questionnaires

    Andrea M. Kriska;Carl J. Caspersen

  • Relation between the changes in physical activity and body-mass index during adolescence: a multicentre longitudinal study

    Sue Y S Kimm;Nancy W Glynn;Eva Obarzanek;Andrea M Kriska

  • Postmenopausal bone density and milk consumption in childhood and adolescence.

    R B Sandler;C W Slemenda;R E LaPorte;J A Cauley

  • Reproducibility and Validity of an Epidemiologic Questionnaire to Assess Past Year Physical Activity in Adolescents

    Deborah J. Aaron;Andrea M. Kriska;Stephen R. Dearwater;Jane A. Cauley

  • Longitudinal Relation between Endogenous Testosterone and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Middle-aged Men A 13-Year Follow-up of Former Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial Participants

    Joseph M. Zmuda;Jane A. Cauley;Andrea Kriska;Nancy W. Glynn

  • Physical Activity Behaviors in Lower and Higher Socioeconomic Status Populations

    Earl S. Ford;Robert K. Merritt;Gregory W. Heath;Kenneth E. Powell

  • The epidemiology of low back pain in an adolescent population

    T L Olsen;R L Anderson;S R Dearwater;A M Kriska

  • Longitudinal changes in physical activity in a biracial cohort during adolescence.

    Sue Y. S. Kimm;Nancy W. Glynn;Andrea M. Kriska;Shannon L. Fitzgerald

  • The relationship between convenience of destinations and walking levels in older women.

    Wendy C. King;Jennifer S. Brach;Steven Belle;Richard Killingsworth

  • The epidemiology of leisure physical activity in an adolescent population

    Deborah J. Aaron;Andrea M. Kriska;Stephen R. Dearwater;Robyn L. Anderson

  • Translating the Diabetes Prevention Program: a comprehensive model for prevention training and program delivery.

    M. Kaye Kramer;Andrea M. Kriska;Elizabeth M. Venditti;Rachel G. Miller

  • The assessment of historical physical activity and its relation to adult bone parameters

    Andrea M. Kriska;Rivka Black Sandler;Jane A. Cauley;Ronald E. Laporte

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald E. LaPorte
Ronald E. LaPorte University of Pittsburgh
Lewis H. Kuller
Lewis H. Kuller University of Pittsburgh
Jane A. Cauley
Jane A. Cauley University of Pittsburgh
William C. Knowler
William C. Knowler National Institutes of Health
Edward W. Gregg
Edward W. Gregg Imperial College London
George A. Bray
George A. Bray Louisiana State University
Elizabeth J. Mayer-Davis
Elizabeth J. Mayer-Davis University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Steven M. Haffner
Steven M. Haffner The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
James O. Hill
James O. Hill University of Alabama at Birmingham
Michael C. Nevitt
Michael C. Nevitt University of California, San Francisco

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