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Recruiting adult participants to physical activity intervention studies using sport: a systematic review

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The mechanisms for achieving effective recruitment and engagement in sport, particularly in hard-to-reach groups, are still unclear and there is an urgent need for more robust evaluation design and reporting of sports interventions.
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The work was undertaken under the auspices of the Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), a UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence (RES-590-28-0002) which is funded by the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Economic and Social Research Council, Medical Research Council, the National Institute for Health Research, and the Wellcome Trust.

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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.

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

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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