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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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Associations between different types of physical activity and teachers' perceived mental, physical, and work-related health.

TL;DR: Examining the mental, physical, and work-related health of Flemish secondary school teachers and identifying the impact on those health variables by demographic and teaching-related factors and various types of PA found only leisure-time PA was associated with more positive perceived health.
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Self-reported sitting time and physical activity: interactive associations with mental well-being and productivity in office employees

TL;DR: Employees’ PA levels exerts different influences on the associations between sitting time, mental well-being and work productivity, and the specific associations and the broad sweep of evidence suggest that workplace PA strategies to improve the mental well being and productivity of all employees should focus on reducing sitting time alongside efforts to increase PA.
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Fitbit-Based Interventions for Healthy Lifestyle Outcomes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

TL;DR: The use of Fitbit devices in interventions has the potential to promote healthy lifestyles in terms of physical activity and weight and subgroup analysis and fsQCA demonstrated that, in addition to the effects of theFitbit devices, setting activity goals was the most important intervention component.
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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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