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Founded in 1970, by the "Father of Aerobics",
Kenneth H. Cooper MD, MPH
Landmark Publications

The following Cooper Institute publications are some of the most frequently cited references in the scientific literature on topics related to physical fitness, physical activity, and health. Click title to view abstract.

Gibbons LW, Blair SN, Cooper KH, Smith M.
Association between coronary heart disease risk factors and physical fitness in healthy adult women. Circulation 67:977-983, 1983.
PubMed  ID Number:  6831681

 

Blair SN, Goodyear NN, Gibbons LW, Cooper KH. 
Physical fitness and incidence of hypertension in healthy normotensive men and women. 
Journal of the American Medical Association. 1984 Jul 27;252(4):487-90.
PubMed ID number: 6737638

 

Duncan JJ, Farr JE, Upton SJ, Hagan RD, Oglesby ME, Blair SN. 
The effects of aerobic exercise on plasma catecholamines and blood pressure in patients with mild essential hypertension.  JAMA 254:2609-2613, 1985. PubMed ID Number:  4057469

 

Kohl HW, Blair SN, Paffenbarger RS Jr., Macera CA , Kronenfeld JJ. 
A mail survey of physical activity habits as related to measured physical fitness. 
Am J Epidemiol 127:1228-1239, 1988. PubMed ID Number:  3369421

 

Blair SN, Kohl HW, Paffenberger RS, Clark DG, Cooper KH, Gibbons LW.
Physical fitness and all-cause mortality. A prospective study of healthy men and women. 
Journal of the American Medical Association. 1989 Nov 3;262(17):2395-401.
PubMed ID Number: 2795824

 

Blair SN, Kohl HW, Gordon NF , Paffenbarger RS.  
How much physical activity is good for health? Ann Rev Public Health 13:99-126, 1992.
PubMed ID Number:  1599603

 

Powell KE, Blair SN. 
The public health burdens of sedentary living habits:  Theoretical but realistic estimates. 
Med Sci Sports Exerc 26, 851-856, 1994. PubMed ID Number:  7934758

 

Blair SN, Kohl HW, Barlow CE, Paffenbarger RS, Jr., Gibbons LW, Macera CA. 
Changes in physical fitness and all-cause mortality:  A prospective study of healthy and unhealthy men. JAMA, 273: 1093-1098, 1995.  PubMed ID Number:   7707596

 

Pate RR, Pratt M, Blair SN, Haskell WL, Macera CA, Bouchard C, Buchner D, Ettinger W, Heath GW, King AC, Kriska A, Leon AS, Marcus BH, Morris J, Paffenbarger RS, Jr., Patrick K, Pollock ML, Rippe JM, Sallis J, Wilmore JH. 
Physical activity and public health:  A recommendation from the CDC and ACSM. 
JAMA, 273: 402-407, 1995. PubMed ID Number:  7823386

 

Blair SN, Kampert JB, Kohl HW, III, Barlow CE, Macera CA , Paffenbarger RS, Jr., Gibbons LW.
Influences of cardiorespiratory fitness and other precursors on cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in men and women.  Journal of the American Medical Association 1996;276:205-210. PubMed ID Number:  8667564

 

Dunn AL , Marcus BH, Kampert JB, Garcia ME, Kohl HW, Blair SN. 
Comparison of lifestyle and structured interventions to increase physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness: a randomized trial.  Journal of the American Medical Assocation. 1999 Jan 27;281(4):327-34. PubMed ID Number: 9929085

 

Lee CD, Blair SN, Jackson AS. 
Cardiorespiratory fitness, body composition, and all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in men. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 1999 Mar;69(3):373-80. PubMed ID Number: 10075319

 

Wei M, Kampert JB, Barlow CE, Nichaman MZ, Gibbons LW, Paffenberger RS, Blair SN. 
Relationship between low cardiorespiratory fitness and mortality in normal-weight, overweight, and obese men.  Journal of the American Medical Association. 1999 Oct 27;282(16):1547-53. 
PubMed ID Number: 10546694