All-cause mortality associated with physical activity during leisure time, work, sports, and cycling to work

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 160, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1621-1628

  Bo Andersen, Lars ^a,c,d   Schnohr, Peter ^b   Schroll, Marianne ^c   Ole Hein, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^c Center for Health and Society   (Denmark)

^d Inst for Exercise Sports Science   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEISURE; MALE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF REPORT; SPORT INJURY; WORK DISABILITY;

EID: 0343674514     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.160.11.1621     Document Type: Article

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