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Sedentary Behavior and Mortality in Older Women

Purpose The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between sedentary time and total; cardiovascular disease (CVD); coronary heart disease (CHD); and cancer mortality in a prospective, multiethnic cohort of postmenopausal women. Methods The study population included 92,234 …

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Risk Factors for Functional Decline in Older Adults with Arthritis

Interesting study from 2005 looking at functional capacity in older adults with arthritis. They found that of all the risk factors for functional decline, not engaging in regular vigorous physical activity (by their definition heavy housework, a sport or a manual job) was the most prevalent risk …

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Major features of immunesenescence, including reduced thymic output, are ameliorated by high levels of physical activity in adulthood.

The thymus gland (which generates T cells) is a rare organ in that it that is biggest in children and starts to atrophy after puberty becoming little more than fatty tissue in old age. It used to be assumed that thymic output (new T-cells) was negligible after adolescence and this was part of the …

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