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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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Raising the Priority of Lifestyle-Related Noncommunicable Diseases in Physical Therapy Curricula.

TL;DR: An example of how epidemiologically informed and evidence-based best health care practices may be systematically integrated into physical therapy curricula to maximize patient/client health and conventional physical therapy outcomes is provided.
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Testing Self-Report Time-Use Diaries against Objective Instruments in Real Time:

TL;DR: In this article, a comparison of diary data with camera and accelerometer records strongly supports the use of diary methodology at both the aggregate (sample) and individual levels, providing evidence that time-use data could be used to complement physical activity questionnaires for providing population-level estimates of physical activity.
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Impaired constitutive and regenerative neurogenesis in adult hyperglycemic zebrafish.

TL;DR: The utility of zebrafish as a robust model for studying the effects of metabolic disorders on the central nervous system is reinforced, highlighting the evolutionary conserved adverse effects of hyperglycemia on neurogenesis and brain healing in zebra fish.
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Disentangling Race, Poverty, and Place in Disparities in Physical Activity.

TL;DR: Individual poverty and neighborhood poverty were associated with decreased odds of being physically active among both whites and blacks, and the need for future research to determine specific elements of the social context that drive disparities is suggested.
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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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