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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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Adverse childhood experiences and associations with health-harming behaviours in young adults: surveys in eight eastern European countries

TL;DR: It is indicated that individuals who do not develop health-harming behaviours are more likely to have experienced safe, nurturing childhoods and evidence-based programmes to improve parenting and support child development need large-scale deployment in eastern European.
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Barriers to and Facilitators of Physical Activity Program Use Among Older Adults

TL;DR: Efforts among health care systems to boost PA among older adults may need to consider patient-centered adjustments to current PA programs, as well as alternative methods for promoting overall active lifestyle choices.
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Associations between physical activity and characteristics of urban green space

TL;DR: In this paper, positive associations with increased levels of physical activity were reported for the amount of UGS close to home, the distance to the nearest UGS, the size of the nearest urban green space, and the presence of certain features.
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Theories of physical activity behaviour change: A history and synthesis of approaches

TL;DR: A narrative historical overview of four key theoretical frameworks applied to understand physical activity over the last three decades is provided and several newer applications of integrated models and dynamic models that may serve to improve the understanding and promotion of physical activity in developed countries over the next decade are highlighted.
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Public open spaces and leisure-time walking in Brazilian adults

TL;DR: The main results showed that the presence of at least two recreational destinations within a 500-m buffer of participants’ homes were associated with an increased odds of LTW compared with no destinations present, and could be used to highlight the importance access to a mix of public open spaces to promote physical activity in megacities of middle-income countries.
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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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