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October 20, 2017Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

Compared with physically inactive subjects, adjusted hazard ratios for all-cause mortality were 0.75, 0.73, and 0.74 among men, and 0.71, 0.75, and 0.74 among women for 0% VPA, 30% or less VPA, and more than 30% VPA, respectively.

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Why the study?

Does meeting physical activity guidelines with moderate or vigorous intensity reduce all-cause mortality in community-dwelling adults?

Population

83,454 community-dwelling Japanese adults

Comparison

Meeting physical activity guidelines… vs Physically inactive subjects

Design

Cohort

Follow-up

894,718 person-years (from 2000-2003 through 2012)

Authors

HKHiroyuki KikuchiSIShigeru InoueILI‐Min Lee

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Overview

Comparable mortality reductions regardless of VPA proportion; supports guideline flexibility in observational data but leaves causality open.

Structured PICO

Does meeting physical activity guidelines with moderate or vigorous intensity reduce all-cause mortality in community-dwelling adults?

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Population
83,454 community-dwelling Japanese adults
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Intervention
Meeting physical activity guidelines, categorized by proportion of vigorous-intensity physical activity (0% VPA, 30% or less VPA, or more than 30% VPA)
C
Comparator
Physically inactive subjects
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Outcome
All-cause mortalityhard clinical

Meeting physical activity guidelines with either moderate or vigorous intensity provides comparable reductions in all-cause mortality.

Cite This Study

Kikuchi et al. (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1000f32badbc352aff2124https://doi.org/10.1249/mss.0000000000001463
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