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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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Prevalence, incidence, predictors, treatment, and control of hypertension among HIV-positive adults on antiretroviral treatment in public sector treatment programs in South Africa.

TL;DR: Older patients, males, those on nevirapine, zidovudine or stavudine, and those who are overweight/obese should be targeted for frequent blood pressure monitoring and the identification of other cardiovascular risk factors to encourage lifestyle modifications.
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Correlates of sedentary behavior in the general population: A cross-sectional study using nationally representative data from six low- and middle-income countries

TL;DR: The current data provides important guidance for future interventions across LMICs to assist sedentary people to reduce their SB levels and several between-country differences were found.
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Exercising alone versus with others and associations with subjective health status in older Japanese: The JAGES Cohort Study

TL;DR: Examination of the association of regular exercise to subjective health status differs according to whether people exercise alone and/or with others, adjusting for frequency of exercise found increased frequency ofercise with others has important health benefits regardless of the total frequency of Exercise.
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Monitoring population levels of physical activity and sedentary time in Norway across the lifespan.

TL;DR: A comprehensive description of objectively measured PA, sedentary time, and prevalence of meeting PA recommendations, in a population‐based sample of Norwegian children, adolescents and adults is provided.
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Association between physical activity and all cancer mortality: Dose-response meta-analysis of cohort studies.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided of an inverse association between pre‐diagnosis PA and all cancer mortality among the general population and high‐quality epidemiological studies that employ standardized PA assessments and unified definitions of PA levels should be developed in future.
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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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