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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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Young people’s knowledge and understanding of health, fitness and physical activity: issues, divides and dilemmas

TL;DR: This article explored and discussed data on young people's knowledge and understanding of health, fitness and physical activity, selected from a wider study which focused on the role of secondary schools in effectively promoting physical activity.
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Examining the use of evidence-based and social media supported tools in freely accessible physical activity intervention websites

TL;DR: Overall website quality was low and the majority of freely available physical activity websites lack the components associated with behavior change, but the results show that website quality can be improved by taking a number of simple steps, and the presence of social media applications in most websites is encouraging.
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How to Tackle Key Challenges in the Promotion of Physical Activity among Older Adults (65+): The AEQUIPA Network Approach.

TL;DR: A review of existing PA intervention studies among the elderly revealed the potential to assess equity effects, which will add to the theoretical and methodological discussion on evidence-based age-specific PA interventions and will contribute to the discussion about European and national health targets.
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Physical Activity and Health: "What is Old is New Again".

TL;DR: The importance of physical activity for health has been reported for centuries as mentioned in this paper and there is an apparent linear relationship between physical activity and health status and as a general rule, increases in physical activities and fitness result in additional improvements in health status.
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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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