Physical fitness and all-cause mortality. A prospective study of healthy men and women.
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Summary
Higher levels of physical fitness appear to delay all-cause mortality primarily due to lowered rates of cardiovascular disease and cancer, and lower mortality rates in higher fitness categories also were seen for cardiovascular Disease and cancer of combined sites.
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- article
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- 1989-11-03
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- 4,229
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Keywords
Medicine, Physical fitness, Demography, Blood pressure, Gerontology
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