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Physical activity: beneficial effects

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Physical activity, exercise, and physical fitness: definitions and distinctions for health-related research.

Carl J. Caspersen, +2 more
- 01 Mar 1985 - 
TL;DR: These definitions are offered as an interpretational framework for comparing studies that relate physical activity, exercise, and physical fitness to health.
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Effect of physical inactivity on major non-communicable diseases worldwide: an analysis of burden of disease and life expectancy

I-Min Lee, +5 more
- 21 Jul 2012 - 
TL;DR: 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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Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Gregory A. Roth, +1028 more
- 10 Nov 2018 - 
TL;DR: Non-communicable diseases comprised the greatest fraction of deaths, contributing to 73·4% (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 72·5–74·1) of total deaths in 2017, while communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional causes accounted for 18·6% (17·9–19·6), and injuries 8·0% (7·7–8·2).

Effect of physical inactivity on major non-communicable diseases worldwide: an analysis of burden of disease and life expectancy

I-Min Lee, +5 more
TL;DR: 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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Physical Fitness and All-Cause Mortality: A Prospective Study of Healthy Men and Women

Steven N. Blair, +5 more
- 03 Nov 1989 - 
TL;DR: Higher levels of physical fitness appear to delay all-cause mortality primarily due to lowered rates of cardiovascular disease and cancer, and lower mortality rates in higher fitness categories also were seen for cardiovascular Disease and cancer of combined sites.