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Does exercise reduce mortality rates in the elderly? — experience from the Framingham Heart Study
Author(s)	Scott E Sherman, Ralph B D'Agostino, Janet L Cobb
Journal title	American Heart Journal, vol 128, no 5, November 1994
Pages	pp 965-972
Keywords	Exercise ; Death rate [statistics] ; Heart disease ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Regular physical activity decreases the mortality in middle-age men and probably in middle-aged women, but it is not known whether the same is true for older people. The authors studied 285 men and women aged 75 or older from Framingham, Massachusetts, who were free of cardiovascular disease. Subjects were ranked by baseline physical activity levels and grouped into quartiles. After adjustments were made for cardiac risk factors, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cancer, women in the second most active quartile had a much lower risk of mortality at 10 years. There was no statistically significant difference in men. There appeared to be an excess of sudden cardiac deaths in the most active women, although this group still lived longer than the least active women. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-991223001 A
Classmark	CEA: S5: CQH: 3J: 7T *
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