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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Norway Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Norway Leader Award
  • 2013 - Silver Medal, Nutrition Society, UK " Physical activity

Overview

Ulf Ekelund is affiliated with the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Norway. Their work focuses on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions across several subfields including Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and General Health Professions.

The primary topics addressed in their research include:

  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Cardiovascular and Exercise Physiology
  • Children's Physical and Motor Development
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Ulf Ekelund has published frequently in the following venues:

  • British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
  • International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
  • Journal of Physical Activity and Health

Some of the recent papers contributing to the body of knowledge in physical activity and health frameworks include:

  • "World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour" (2020), British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • "2020 WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour for children and adolescents aged 5-17 years: summary of the evidence" (2020), International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • "Physical activity behaviours in adolescence: current evidence and opportunities for intervention" (2021), The Lancet
  • "Daily energy expenditure through the human life course" (2021), Science
  • "Daily steps and all-cause mortality: a meta-analysis of 15 international cohorts" (2022), The Lancet Public Health

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Jakob Tarp
  • Knut Eirik Dalene
  • Sigmund A. Anderssen
  • Ding Ding
  • Peter T. Katzmarzyk

In 2013, Ulf Ekelund was awarded the Silver Medal by the Nutrition Society, UK, recognising contributions related to physical activity.

Best Publications

  • International physical activity questionnaire: 12-country reliability and validity

    Cora L Craig;Alison L Marshall;Michael Sjöström;Adrian E Bauman

  • World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour

    Fiona C. Bull;Salih S. Al-Ansari;Stuart Biddle;Katja Borodulin

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Global physical activity levels: surveillance progress, pitfalls, and prospects

    Pedro C. Hallal;Lars Bo Andersen;Lars Bo Andersen;Fiona C. Bull;Regina Guthold

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Sedentary behavior research network (SBRN) - terminology consensus project process and outcome

    Mark S. Tremblay;Salomé Aubert;Joel D. Barnes;Travis J. Saunders

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • Does physical activity attenuate, or even eliminate, the detrimental association of sitting time with mortality? A harmonised meta-analysis of data from more than 1 million men and women

    Ulf Ekelund;Ulf Ekelund;Jostein Steene-Johannessen;Wendy J Brown;Morten Wang Fagerland;Morten Wang Fagerland

  • Physical activity and clustered cardiovascular risk in children: a cross-sectional study (The European Youth Heart Study)

    Lars Bo Andersen;Maarike Harro;Luis B Sardinha;Karsten Froberg

  • Letter to the Editor: Standardized use of the terms "sedentary" and "sedentary behaviours"

    Joel Barnes;Timothy K. Behrens;Mark E. Benden;Stuart Biddle

  • Accelerometer Data Collection and Processing Criteria to Assess Physical Activity and Other Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Practical Considerations

    Jairo H. Migueles;Cristina Cadenas-Sanchez;Ulf Ekelund;Ulf Ekelund;Christine Delisle Nyström

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Moderate to vigorous physical activity and sedentary time and cardiometabolic risk factors in children and adolescents

    Ulf Ekelund;Jian'an Luan;Lauren B. Sherar;Dale W. Esliger

  • Physical activity levels and patterns of 9- and 15-yr-old European children.

    Chris J. Riddoch;Lars B. O. Andersen;Niels Wedderkopp;Maarike Harro

  • Dose-response associations between accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time and all cause mortality: systematic review and harmonised meta-analysis

    Ulf Ekelund;Jakob Tarp;Jostein Steene-Johannessen;Bjørge Hermann Hansen

  • Guide to the Assessment of Physical Activity: Clinical and Research Applications A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

    Scott J. Strath;Leonard A. Kaminsky;Barbara E. Ainsworth;Ulf Ekelund

  • The ABC of physical activity for health: A consensus statement from the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences

    Gary O'Donovan;Anthony J Blazevich;Colin Boreham;Ashley R Cooper

  • TV Viewing and Physical Activity Are Independently Associated with Metabolic Risk in Children: The European Youth Heart Study

    Ulf Ekelund;Søren Brage;Karsten Froberg;Maarike Harro

  • Age group comparability of raw accelerometer output from wrist- and hip-worn monitors.

    Maria Hildebrand;Vincent T. Van Hees;Bjorge Hermann Hansen;Ulf Ekelund

Frequent Co-Authors

Soren Brage
Soren Brage University of Cambridge
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Lars Bo Andersen
Lars Bo Andersen University of Bergen
Sigmund A. Anderssen
Sigmund A. Anderssen Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
Luís B. Sardinha
Luís B. Sardinha University of Lisbon
Paul W. Franks
Paul W. Franks Lund University
Peter H. Whincup
Peter H. Whincup St George's, University of London
Esther M. F. van Sluijs
Esther M. F. van Sluijs University of Cambridge
Michael Sjöström
Michael Sjöström Karolinska Institute
Stephen J. Sharp
Stephen J. Sharp University of Cambridge

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