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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A Web-Based, Social Networking Physical Activity Intervention for Insufficiently Active Adults Delivered via Facebook App: Randomized Controlled Trial
Carol Maher,Monika Ferguson,Corneel Vandelanotte,Ronald C. Plotnikoff,Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij,Samantha L. Thomas,Karen Nelson-Field,Tim Olds +7 more
TL;DR: An online, social networking physical activity intervention with pedometers can produce sizable short-term physical activity changes and high levels of engagement with the intervention, and particularly the self-monitoring features, were observed.
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Weekday and weekend patterns of objectively measured sitting, standing, and stepping in a sample of office-based workers: the active buildings study
Lee Smith,Mark Hamer,Marcella Ucci,Alexi Marmot,Benjamin Gardner,Alexia Sawyer,Jane Wardle,Abigail Fisher +7 more
TL;DR: Interventions that target the working day and the evenings (weekday and weekend) to displace sitting with activity may offer most promise for reducing population levels of sedentary behaviour and increasing physical activity levels, in office-based workers residing in England.
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Validity of the Fitbit activity tracker for measuring steps in community-dwelling older adults
Serene S. Paul,Anne Tiedemann,Leanne Hassett,Elisabeth Ramsay,Catherine Kirkham,Sakina Chagpar,Catherine Sherrington +6 more
TL;DR: The Fitbit tracker is sufficiently accurate to be used among community-dwelling older adults to monitor and give feedback on step counts and the ActiGraph appeared to underestimate steps.
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Reduced physical activity in young and older adults: metabolic and musculoskeletal implications
Kelly A Bowden Davies,Samuel Pickles,Victoria S. Sprung,Graham J. Kemp,Uazman Alam,Daniel R. Moore,Abd A. Tahrani,Daniel J. Cuthbertson +7 more
TL;DR: The effects of short-term physical inactivity (with step reduction) are reversible on resumption of habitual physical activity in younger people, but less so in older adults, and nutritional interventions and resistance training offer potential strategies to prevent these deleterious metabolic and musculoskeletal effects.
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Global physical activity levels - Need for intervention
TL;DR: Great efforts are needed to reduce PI and SB and increase levels of PA in the US and worldwide and reduce or eliminate PI would likely produce substantial increases in life expectancy of the world's population.
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