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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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COVID-19 lockdown: Physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep in Italian medicine students.

TL;DR: Strategies fostering compliance to current guidelines for physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep should be implemented, especially in case of repeated or intermittent lockdown.
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Maintaining Healthy Behavior: a Prospective Study of Psychological Well-Being and Physical Activity

TL;DR: Psychological well-being was independently associated with attaining and maintaining higher physical activity levels over 11 years, suggesting that it may be a valuable target for interventions aimed at helping older adults acquire more physical activity.
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Built environment associates of active school travel in New Zealand children and youth: A systematic meta-analysis using individual participant data

TL;DR: In this article, the associations between active travel to school and the neighbourhood built environment in children and youth were examined by systematically identifying and collating data from New Zealand studies, and a one-step individual participant data meta-analysis was performed in SAS.
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Risk factors and comorbidities in the preclinical stages of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

TL;DR: The prevalence of premorbid risk factors and comorbid diseases was significantly higher in preclinical COPD compared with age-matched never-smoking control subjects, but was similar to smoking control subjects not suffering from COPD.
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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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