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Overview

Scott B. Going is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and has conducted research primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, as well as Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

Their research focuses on several key topics related to health and disease. These include:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Bone health and osteoporosis research
  • Body Composition Measurement Techniques
  • Children's Physical and Motor Development
  • Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins

Scott B. Going has contributed to academic literature through numerous publications. Recent notable papers include:

  • Defining Accelerometer Thresholds for Activity Intensities in Adolescent Girls, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Parent Involvement in Diet or Physical Activity Interventions to Treat or Prevent Childhood Obesity: An Umbrella Review, 2021, Nutrients
  • Association of objectively measured physical activity and bone health in children and adolescents: a systematic review and narrative synthesis, 2020, Osteoporosis International
  • Incidence of diabetes according to metabolically healthy or unhealthy normal weight or overweight/obesity in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative, 2020, Menopause The Journal of The North American Menopause Society
  • Cross-sectional associations between adipose tissue depots and areal bone mineral density in the UK Biobank imaging study, 2021, Osteoporosis International

The venues in which Scott B. Going frequently publishes include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Osteoporosis International
  • Nutrients
  • Menopause The Journal of The North American Menopause Society
  • Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Collaboration plays an important role in their research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Victoria L. Bland
  • Jennifer W. Bea
  • Lorena García
  • Amber R. Cordola Hsu
  • Bin Xie

Best Publications

  • Body fatness and risk for elevated blood pressure, total cholesterol, and serum lipoprotein ratios in children and adolescents.

    D P Williams;S B Going;T G Lohman;D W Harsha

  • Defining Accelerometer Thresholds for Activity Intensities in Adolescent Girls

    Margarita S Treuth;Kathryn Schmitz;Diane J Catellier;Robert G McMurray

  • Why bioelectrical impedance analysis should be used for estimating adiposity.

    Linda B. Houtkooper;Timothy G. Lohman;Scott B. Going;Wanda H. Howell

  • A review of psychosocial pre‐treatment predictors of weight control

    P. J. Teixeira;S. B. Going;L. B. Sardinha;T. G. Lohman

  • Pretreatment predictors of attrition and successful weight management in women

    P J Teixeira;S B Going;L B Houtkooper;E C Cussler

  • Bioelectrical impedance estimation of fat-free body mass in children and youth: a cross-validation study.

    L. B. Houtkooper;S. B. Going;T. G. Lohman;A. F. Roche

  • Relationship of Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity to Incident Cardiovascular Disease: Results From the Women's Health Initiative

    Andrea K. Chomistek;JoAnn E. Manson;Marcia L. Stefanick;Bing Lu

  • Genome-wide association study of habitual physical activity in over 377,000 UK Biobank participants identifies multiple variants including CADM2 and APOE.

    Yann C. Klimentidis;David A. Raichlen;Jennifer Bea;David O. Garcia

  • Effects of resistance training on regional and total bone mineral density in premenopausal women: A randomized prospective study

    T. Lohman;S. Going;R. Pamenter;M. Hall

  • Receiver operating characteristic analysis of body mass index, triceps skinfold thickness, and arm girth for obesity screening in children and adolescents

    Luis B Sardinha;Scott B Going;Pedro J Teixeira;Timothy G Lohman

  • Exercise motivation, eating, and body image variables as predictors of weight control.

    Pedro J. Teixeira;Scott B. Going;Linda B. Houtkooper;Ellen C. Cussler

  • Detection of small changes in body composition by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry.

    S B Going;M P Massett;M C Hall;L A Bare

  • Total and Regional Fat and Serum Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Lean and Obese Children and Adolescents

    Pedro J. Teixeira;Pedro J. Teixeira;Luis B. Sardinha;Scott B. Going;Timothy G. Lohman

  • The psychosocial and behavioral characteristics related to energy misreporting.

    RD Jaclyn Maurer PhD;Douglas L. Taren;Pedro J. Teixeira;RD Cynthia A. Thomson PhD

  • Validity of bioelectric impedance for body composition assessment in children.

    L. B. Houtkooper;T. G. Lohman;S. B. Going;M. C. Hall

  • Effects of exercise on bone mineral density in calcium-replete postmenopausal women with and without hormone replacement therapy.

    Scott Going;Timothy Lohman;Linda Houtkooper;Lauve Metcalfe

  • Weight loss readiness in middle-aged women: psychosocial predictors of success for behavioral weight reduction.

    Pedro J. Teixeira;Scott B. Going;Linda B. Houtkooper;Ellen C. Cussler

  • Physical activity levels in patients with early knee osteoarthritis measured by accelerometry

    Joshua N. Farr;Scott B. Going;Timothy G. Lohman;Lucinda Rankin

  • Genome-wide association study of habitual physical activity in over 277,000 UK Biobank participants identifies multiple variants including CADM2 and APOE

    Yann C. Klimentidis;David A. Raichlen;Jennifer Bea;David O. Garcia

  • Receiver operating characteristic analysis of body mass index, triceps skinfold thickness, and arm girth for obesity screening in

    Luis B Sardinha;Scott B Going;Pedro J Teixeira;Timothy G Lohman

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy G. Lohman
Timothy G. Lohman University of Arizona
Timothy M. Lohman
Timothy M. Lohman Washington University in St. Louis
Luís B. Sardinha
Luís B. Sardinha University of Lisbon
Cynthia A. Thomson
Cynthia A. Thomson University of Arizona
June Stevens
June Stevens University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Karin A. Pfeiffer
Karin A. Pfeiffer Michigan State University
Joel Gittelsohn
Joel Gittelsohn Johns Hopkins University
Marcia L. Stefanick
Marcia L. Stefanick Stanford University
Jane A. Cauley
Jane A. Cauley University of Pittsburgh
JoAnn E. Manson
JoAnn E. Manson Harvard Medical School

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