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Effect of physical inactivity on major non-communicable diseases worldwide: an analysis of burden of disease and life expectancy

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In this article, the authors quantify the effect of physical inactivity on these major non-communicable diseases by estimating how much disease could be averted if inactive people were to become active and to estimate gain in life expectancy at the population level.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2012-07-21 and is currently open access. It has received 6119 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Life expectancy & Population.

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Understanding the complex interplay of barriers to physical activity amongst black and minority ethnic groups in the United Kingdom: a qualitative synthesis using meta-ethnography

TL;DR: Interventions to promote engagement with physical activity need to address perceptions of this behaviour and the elicited concepts and contexts could be used to enhance the development of tailored effective health promotion interventions for BME individuals.
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Promoting Physical Activity Among University Students: A Systematic Review of Controlled Trials:

TL;DR: In this paper, a review aims to summarize the benefits of a lifelong active lifestyle in a university study, which is often accompanied by a decline in physical activity (PA) levels but can offer the opportunity to promote a lifetime active lifestyle.
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The contribution of sport participation to overall health enhancing physical activity levels in Australia: a population-based study

TL;DR: Club sport participation contributes considerably to LTPA at health enhancing levels and health promotion policies, and more specifically physical activity policies, should emphasize the role of sport in enhancing health.
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Shifts in population dietary patterns and physical inactivity as determinants of global trends in the prevalence of diabetes: An ecological analysis

TL;DR: The adoption of sedentary lifestyle and westernised dietary patterns appears to be closely linked to the global rise in diabetes prevalence.
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Effect of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with myocardial infarction in 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): case-control study

TL;DR: Abnormal lipids, smoking, hypertension, diabetes, abdominal obesity, psychosocial factors, consumption of fruits, vegetables, and alcohol, and regular physical activity account for most of the risk of myocardial infarction worldwide in both sexes and at all ages in all regions.
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Physical Activity, All-Cause Mortality, and Longevity of College Alumni

TL;DR: With or without consideration of hypertension, cigarette smoking, extremes or gains in body weight, or early parental death, alumni mortality rates were significantly lower among the physically active than among less active men.
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Cardiorespiratory Fitness as a Quantitative Predictor of All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in Healthy Men and Women: A Meta-analysis

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic literature search was conducted for observational cohort studies using MEDLINE (1966 to December 31, 2008) and EMBASE (1980 to December 30, 2008), which reported associations of baseline cardiorespiratory fitness with CHD events, CVD events, or all-cause mortality in healthy participants.
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