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.About:
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.read more
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Measuring the Destination Accessibility of Cycling Transfer Trips in Metro Station Areas: A Big Data Approach
TL;DR: A new cycling accessibility metric with a lognormal distribution decay curve was developed by considering the distance decay characteristics and cycling’s competition with walking and outperformed the traditional model with an exponential decay function in predicting the frequency of bicycle-metro trips.
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An exploration of physical activity and wellbeing in university employees
Kay Cooper,Gillian C Barton +1 more
TL;DR: University staff demonstrate PA levels and a relationship between PA and wellbeing similar to the general population, and the main focus group finding was the impact of university culture on workplacePA and wellbeing.
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Validity of the global physical activity questionnaire (GPAQ) in Bangladesh.
TL;DR: GPAQ is an acceptable measure for physical activity surveillance in Bangladesh particularly for urban residents, women and people with high education, particularly for rural residents.
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Physical activity during work, transport and leisure in Germany--prevalence and socio-demographic correlates.
TL;DR: The present data underlines the importance of a comprehensive view on physical activity engagement according to the different physical activity domains and discloses a need for future physical activity interventions that consider socio-demographic variables, residential setting as well as the physical activity domain in Germany.
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Physical Activity and Bone: May the Force be with You
Jonathan H Tobias,Virginia C. Gould,L. Brunton,Kevin Deere,Joern Rittweger,Matthijs Lipperts,Bernd Grimm +6 more
TL;DR: Interestingly, vertical impacts >4g, though rare, largely accounted for the relationship between habitual levels of PA and BMD in adolescents, and to the extent that vertical impacts need to exceed a certain threshold in order to be bone protective, such a threshold is likely to be considerably lower in older people as compared with adolescents.
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