Physical activity, fitness, and all-cause mortality: An 18-year follow-up among old people.
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Persistence and change in PA level was associated with mortality, largely explained by fitness status, and Randomized controlled studies are needed to test whether maintaining or increasing PA level could lengthen the life of old people.About:
This article is published in Journal of Sport and Health Science.The article was published on 2016-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 21 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Functional ability.read more
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Association of Leisure-Time Physical Activity Across the Adult Life Course With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality.
Pedro F. Saint-Maurice,Diarmuid Coughlan,Scott P. Kelly,Sarah Kozey Keadle,Michael B. Cook,Susan A. Carlson,Janet E. Fulton,Charles E. Matthews +7 more
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that becoming physically active later in adulthood (40-61 years of age) may provide comparable health benefits to maintaining physical activity from adolescence into later adulthood.
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Is physical activity a cause of longevity? It is not as straightforward as some would believe. A critical analysis
TL;DR: Physical activity improves fitness and physical function, and confers other health-related effects, and outcomes have a greater basis in evidence-based data than any claims of a reduced risk of death, especially when recommending physical activity for previously physically inactive middle-aged and elderly adults.
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Physical activity and longevity: how to move closer to causal inference.
TL;DR: An insightful review contesting epidemiological findings that increased physical activity (PA) lengthens the life span is provided, arguing that intervention studies do not support PA causing a reduced risk of death and highlighting several limitations in previous observational studies that may have led to spurious conclusions.
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Validity of a single question to assess habitual physical activity of community-dwelling older people.
TL;DR: The self‐report question to assess habitual PA is valid and responsive to change and thus useful for epidemiological research in community‐dwelling older people, also in follow‐up studies.
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On the use of a six-level scale for physical activity.
Gunnar Grimby,K. Frändin +1 more
TL;DR: P predictive validity for mortality and different aspects of physical performance are demonstrated, and it is suggested that a common consensus be reached with respect to details of the questionnaire.
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Physiological Analysis of Middle-Aged and Old Former Athletes Comparison with Still Active Athletes of the Same Ages
Bengt Saltin,Gunnar Grimby +1 more
TL;DR: Blood lipids, red cell volume, heart volume, dynamic spirometry, electrocardiograms made at rest and during exercise, and maximal oxygen uptake were determined in 29 former athletes 45 to 70 years old that had been very successful competitors in endurance events before the age of 30.
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Population based study of social and productive activities as predictors of survival among elderly Americans
TL;DR: Social and productive activities that involve little or no enhancement of fitness lower the risk of all cause mortality as much as fitness activities do, suggesting that in addition to increased cardiopulmonary fitness, activity may confer survival benefits through psychosocial pathways.
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Domains of physical activity and all-cause mortality: systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis of cohort studies
TL;DR: Higher levels of total and domain-specific physical activity were associated with reduced all-cause mortality and risk reduction per unit of time increase was largest for vigorous exercise.
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Leisure Time Physical Activity of Moderate to Vigorous Intensity and Mortality: A Large Pooled Cohort Analysis
Steven C. Moore,Alpa V. Patel,Charles E. Matthews,Amy Berrington de Gonzalez,Yikyung Park,Hormuzd A. Katki,Martha S. Linet,Elisabete Weiderpass,Kala Visvanathan,Kathy J. Helzlsouer,Michael J. Thun,Susan M. Gapstur,Patricia Hartge,I-Min Lee +13 more
TL;DR: Analyzing data from over 650,000 individuals, Dr. Steven Moore and colleagues report that greater amounts of leisure-time physical activity were associated with higher life expectancy across a wide range of activity levels and body mass index groups.
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Changes in physical activity, mortality, and incidence of coronary heart disease in older men
TL;DR: Maintaining or taking up light or moderate physical activity reduces mortality and heart attacks in older men with and without diagnosed cardiovascular disease, and supports public-health recommendations for older sedentary people to increase physical activity, and for active middle-aged people to continue their activity into old age.