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Singapore Chinese Health Study Total physical activity (Odegaard, 2013) Interview; 8 continuous categories ranging from never to 31 hours or more in an average week spent doing strenuous sports (e.g. jogging, bicycling on hills, tennis, squash,swimming laps or aerobics); vigorous work (e.g. moving heavy furniture, loading or unloading trucks, shoveling or equivalent manual labour); and moderate activities (e.g. brisk walking, bowling, bicycling on level ground, tai chi and chi kung) The Netherlands’s Cohort Total Recreational (Simons, 2013) Self-administered questionnaire: occupational sitting time and nonoccupational physical activity time (walking/cycling, gardening/doing odd jobs, and sports/gymnastics) Norwegian World Class Athletes Recreational (Robsahm, 2010) Hours and type of exercises Not indicated in the Shanghai Women’s Health Study Recreational (Lee, 2009) Regular exercise (no details) Not indicated in the paper AARP Diet and Health US physical activity Recreational (Howard, 2008) Self-administered questionnaire. Times per week of physical activity or sports that lasted at least 20 min and caused increases in breathing or heart rate, or caused them to work up a sweat (i.e., current exercise/sports). Daily routine activity at home or work: sitting, sitting and walking, standing or walking but not lifting or carrying things, carrying light loads or climbing stairs, and carrying heavy loads or doing heavy work. Reliability and validity evaluated in similar U.S. cohorts and found to provide useful information Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study (JPHC Study) I and II physical activity (Lee, 2007; Inoue, 2008) Self-administered questionnaire: frequency of heavy physical work or strenuous exercise, sedentary activity and walking or standing. MET-hour assigned to activities Validity of MET-hour assessed in 55 men and 55 women from the cohort using a 4-day 24-h physical activity record . Rank correlation coefficient between MET-hour score and physical activity records was 0.64 (p < 0.0001)