Descriptive Epidemiological Review Paper

This descriptive epidemiological review article provides data on physical activity and exercise training in the United States. This analysis will identify the description of the health outcome on descriptive data terms of the article such as person, place, and time.

First, the person's (test subjects) used are characterized according to the standard variables and demographics including age, gender, race/ethnicity, occupation, and education. The article used participants ages 6 - +75 measuring their physical activity and exercise training based on their age. Both children and adults were put in separate measuring scales. Children were recommended to perform at least 60 minutes of physical exercise daily, whereas, adults were recommended to

Identifying children from Asian descent to have the lowest prevalence of meeting exercise guidelines.

The results shown by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), reported physical activity levels of children in the following age category group; 6-11, 12-15, and 16-19 years old. This survey identified individuals of Mexican-American ethnic

This particular data provides comparative variables be either different locations, or settings. In this case, pertaining to physical exercise and exercise training practices. The article provides information of both adults and high school students. Table 1 of the article lists 8 physical activities and how each exercise training setting complied with the recommended physical activity guidelines. However, Table 1 lists high school students partaking in 10 physical activities compared to 8 listed in the adult section. This might be due to the availability of parks, gyms, and training equipment being more readily available to high schools than adults. Each age group had male and female exercise training practices and how frequent their behavior was to engage in it. Both age and gender groups actively sought to partake in walking as meeting the physical activity guidelines. Sedentary behavior was also targeted as a descriptive epidemiological health concern in the article. From 2009-2010, NHANES reported that adults spent 4.7 hours sitting per day. A trend was observed identifying higher education levels leading to longer hours sitting in both men and women. Also, data was collected globally by the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) throughout 20 countries concluding a median of sedentary behavior of 5 hours/day, compared to U.S. studies reporting a median