Is physical activity or physical fitness more important in defining health benefits?

Physical activity and public health. A recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine

1995 • 7,196 citations

Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General

1995 • 5,036 citations

Physical Activity and Public Health

1995 • 4,192 citations

Compendium of Physical Activities: classification of energy costs of human physical activities

1993 • 4,024 citations

Physical fitness and all-cause mortality. A prospective study of healthy men and women

1989 • 3,149 citations

Physical Fitness and All-Cause Mortality

1989 • 2,461 citations

Changes in Physical Fitness and All-Cause Mortality

1995 • 1,965 citations

Influences of Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Other Precursors on Cardiovascular Disease and All-Cause Mortality in Men and Women

1996 • 1,765 citations

All-Cause Mortality Associated With Physical Activity During Leisure Time, Work, Sports, and Cycling to Work

2000 • 1,050 citations

Physical activity and cardiovascular health. NIH Consensus Development Panel on Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health

1996 • 876 citations

Physical Fitness as a Predictor of Mortality among Healthy, Middle-Aged Norwegian Men

1993 • 790 citations

Relation of Leisure-Time Physical Activity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness to the Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Men

1994 • 790 citations

Physical Fitness as a Predictor of Cardiovascular Mortality in Asymptomatic North American Men

1988 • 680 citations

Associations of Light, Moderate, and Vigorous Intensity Physical Activity with Longevity: The Harvard Alumni Health Study

2000 • 622 citations

Relationship of Leisure-Time Physical Activity and Mortality

1998 • 571 citations

Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health

1996 • 558 citations

Physical Activity and Risk of Stroke in Women

2000 • 546 citations

Exercise intensity and longevity in men. The Harvard Alumni Health Study

1995 • 533 citations

Changes in physical activity, mortality, and incidence of coronary heart disease in older men

1998 • 523 citations

A comparative analysis of four protocols for maximal treadmill stress testing

1976 • 522 citations

Physical Exercise and Reduced Risk of Breast Cancer in Young Women

1994 • 480 citations

Exercise in leisure time: coronary attack and death rates.

1990 • 442 citations

Leisure-Time Physical Activity, Body Size, and Colon Cancer in Women

1997 • 418 citations

Leisure-Time Physical Activity and Ischemic Stroke Risk

1998 • 393 citations

Changes in Physical Fitness and Changes in Mortality

1999 • 381 citations

Exercise Intensity and Longevity in Men

1995 • 369 citations

Physical Activity and Mortality in Postmenopausal Women

1997 • 320 citations

Association of leisure time physical activity with the risk of coronary heart disease, hypertension and diabetes in middle-aged men and women

1997 • 314 citations

Physical activity and ischaemic heart disease in middle-aged British men.

1991 • 307 citations

Physical Activity and Risk of Developing Colorectal Cancer Among College Alumni

1991 • 294 citations

Physical Activity and Stroke Incidence

1998 • 291 citations

Exercise and Risk of Stroke in Male Physicians

1999 • 283 citations

Physical activity, physical fitness, and all-cause and cancer mortality: A prospective study of men and women

1996 • 270 citations

Comparative analysis of physiologic responses to three different maximal graded exercise test protocols in healthy women

1982 • 267 citations

Physical Activity in Older Middle-aged Men and Reduced Risk of Stroke: The Honolulu Heart Program

1994 • 253 citations

A Prospective Study of Recreational Physical Activity and Breast Cancer Risk

1999 • 235 citations

Physical activity and incidence of coronary heart disease in middle-aged women and men

1997 • 230 citations

Physical Activity and 10-Year Mortality From Cardiovascular Diseases and All Causes

1998 • 214 citations

Physical Activity and Stroke Risk: The Framingham Study

1994 • 209 citations

Physical Activity and Breast Cancer Risk in Women Aged 20-54 Years

2000 • 206 citations

Physical Activity and Stroke Incidence in Women and Men: The NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study

1996 • 201 citations

Physical activity and risk of colorectal cancer in men and women

1996 • 189 citations

Risk factors of stroke incidence and mortality. A 12-year follow-up of the Oslo Study.

1993 • 187 citations

Natural History of Leisure-time Physical Activity and Its Correlates: Associations with Mortality from All Causes and Cardiovascular Disease Over 28 Years

1996 • 181 citations

The Impact of Excluding Non-Leisure Energy Expenditure on the Relation between Physical Activity and Mortality in Women

1998 • 177 citations

Self-report of physical activity and patterns of mortality in seventh-day adventist men

1991 • 161 citations

Physical fitness, physical activity, and functional limitation in adults aged 40 and older

1998 • 148 citations

Influences of cardiorespiratory fitness levels and other predictors on cardiovascular disease mortality in men

1998 • 147 citations

Physical activity and risk of lung cancer

1999 • 146 citations

Physical activity and 23-year incidence of coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality among middle-aged men. The Honolulu Heart Program.

1994 • 144 citations

Risk assessment of physical activity and physical fitness in the Canada health survey mortality follow-up study

1992 • 141 citations

Physical Activity and Risk of Breast Cancer in the Framingham Heart Study

1994 • 141 citations

Physical Activity and Ischemic Stroke Risk

1999 • 129 citations

Characteristics of Leisure Time Physical Activity Associated with Decreased Risk of Premature All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Middle-aged Men

1996 • 128 citations

Physical fitness or physical activity as a predictor of ischaemic heart disease? A 17‐year follow‐up in the Copenhagen Male Study

1992 • 127 citations

The association between cardiorespiratory fitness and prostate cancer

1996 • 126 citations

The influence of physical activity on lung-cancer risk: A prospective study of 81,516 men and women

1997 • 123 citations

Physical Activity and Stroke Mortality in Women

2000 • 123 citations

Physical Activity and Risk of Prostatic Cancer among College Alumni

1992 • 123 citations

PROTECTION AGAINST ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE IN THE BELGIAN PHYSICAL FITNESS STUDY: PHYSICAL FITNESS RATHER THAN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY?

1987 • 120 citations

Baseline and Previous Physical Activity in Relation to Mortality in Elderly Men: The Zutphen Elderly Study

1999 • 119 citations

Physical activity, physical fitness, and all-cause mortality in women: do women need to be active?

1993 • 116 citations

MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC ANALYSIS OF RISK FACTORS FOR STROKE IN TILBURG, THE NETHERLANDS

1983 • 112 citations

Physical activity and colon cancer: A case‐referent study in Stockholm

1990 • 111 citations

Physical Activity, Physical Fitness, and Risk of Dying

1998 • 110 citations

Physical Activity and Its Association with Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Mortality

1996 • 85 citations

Physical Activity in Relation to Colon Cancer in Middle-aged Men and Women

1996 • 83 citations

Physical Fitness and All-Cause Mortality in Hypertensive Men

1991 • 79 citations

Selected physical activities and the risk of endometrial cancer

1993 • 76 citations

Past and present physical activity and endometrial cancer risk

1993 • 75 citations

Coronary risk factors and incidence of coronary death in relation to physical fitness. Seven-year follow-up study of middle-aged and elderly men

1985 • 73 citations

Physical activity, water intake and risk of colorectal cancer in Taiwan: A hospital-based case-control study

1999 • 71 citations

Physical Activity and Risk of Endometrial Cancer

1993 • 64 citations

A natural history of athleticism, health and longevity

1998 • 54 citations

Relation of Physical Activity to Risk of Testicular Cancer

2000 • 53 citations

Customary physical activity and survival in later life: a study in Nottingham, UK.

1997 • 50 citations

Occupational physical activity and renal cell cancer: A nationwide cohort study in Sweden

1999 • 30 citations