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| The association of changes in physical activity level and other lifestyle characteristics with mortality among men | | Author(s) | Ralph S Paffenbarger, Robert T Hyde, Alvin L Wing |
| Journal title | The New England Journal of Medicine, February 25 1993 |
| Pages | pp 538-545 |
| Keywords | Exercise ; Health [elderly] ; Longevity ; Tobacco smoking ; Blood pressure ; Weight ; Death ; Older men ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Recent trends toward increasing physical exercise, stopping smoking, and avoiding obesity may increase longevity. Harvard College alumni (men aged 45-84 in 1977) and reporting no life-threatening disease on questionnaires completed in 1962 or 1966 and again in 1977 were classified according to changes in lifestyle characteristics between questionnaires. Changes in their level of physical activity, smoking, blood pressure, and body weight, and the relation of these factors to mortality between 1977 and 1985 were analysed. Of the 10,269 men, 476 died during this period (totalling 90,650 man-years of observation). Beginning moderately vigorous sports activity was associated with a 23% lower risk of death than not taking up moderately vigorous sport. Stopping smoking was associated with a 41% lower risk than continuing, but with a 23% higher risk than never having smoked. Men with recently diagnosed hypertension had a lower risk of death than those with long-term hypertension. Maintenance of lean body mass was associated with lower mortality rate than long-term, recent or previous obesity. Associations between changes in lifestyle and mortality were independent and largely undiminished by age. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980828220 A |
| Classmark | CEA: CC: BGA: ETT: BKL: 4X6: CW: BC: 49: 7T * |
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