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
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Comparable mortality reductions regardless of VPA proportion; supports guideline flexibility in observational data but leaves causality open.
Does meeting physical activity guidelines with moderate or vigorous intensity reduce all-cause mortality in community-dwelling adults?
Meeting physical activity guidelines with either moderate or vigorous intensity provides comparable reductions in all-cause mortality.
Kikuchi et al. (2017) studied this question.
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