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Exercise in the prevention of coronary heart disease — today's best buy in public health
Author(s)	Jeremy N Morris
Journal title	Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, vol 26, no 7, 1994
Pages	pp 807-814
Keywords	Exercise ; Preventative medicine ; Heart disease ; Research Reviews.
Annotation	Forty years of population study have shown that physical activity can protect against coronary heart disease (CHD) in men of middle and early old age. A study of British civil servants considered the vigorous aerobic effect accompanied by high levels of other activity required for their protection from CHD. Serious methodological problems are illustrated from studies of these British office workers, also other studies of elite Harvard alumni and American men at high risk. Because of uncertainties in defining optimal exercise, the strength of protection may be underestimated. Some possible lines of advance are suggested: collaboration between physiologists and epidemiologists to expand the content of activity information beyond calorific costs; or study of sweating and hard breathing as indicators of activity that is "vigorous" for the individual. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-980108229 A
Classmark	CEA: LK2: CQH: 3A:6KC *
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