Physical activity, physical fitness and longevity

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

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

1989 • 3,149 citations

Physical Activity, All-Cause Mortality, and Longevity of College Alumni

1986 • 2,771 citations

The Pathogenesis of Coronary Artery Disease and the Acute Coronary Syndromes

1992 • 2,655 citations

Physical Fitness and All-Cause Mortality

1989 • 2,461 citations

The Association of Changes in Physical-Activity Level and Other Lifestyle Characteristics with Mortality among Men

1993 • 2,027 citations

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AS AN INDEX OF HEART ATTACK RISK IN COLLEGE ALUMNI1

1978 • 1,991 citations

Changes in Physical Fitness and All-Cause Mortality

1995 • 1,965 citations

The pathogenesis of coronary artery disease and the acute coronary syndromes (First of two parts)

1992 • 1,958 citations

CORONARY HEART-DISEASE AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OF WORK

1953 • 1,627 citations

INFLUENCE OF PLAQUE CONFIGURATION AND STRESS DISTRIBUTION ON FISSURING OF CORONARY ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES

1989 • 1,249 citations

Physical activity, fitness, and health: consensus statement

1993 • 907 citations

Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General

1996 • 891 citations

Leisure-Time Physical Activity Levels and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease and Death

1987 • 799 citations

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

1993 • 790 citations

VIGOROUS EXERCISE IN LEISURE-TIME: PROTECTION AGAINST CORONARY HEART DISEASE

1980 • 722 citations

Cardiovascular Adaptations to Physical Training

1983 • 700 citations

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

1988 • 680 citations

Physical activity, fitness, and health: international proceedings and consensus statement

1994 • 649 citations

Work Activity and Coronary Heart Mortality

1975 • 592 citations

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

1995 • 533 citations

Mortality among the elderly in the Alameda County Study: behavioral and demographic risk factors.

1987 • 477 citations

Medicine: An Illustrated History.

1988 • 454 citations

Exercise in leisure time: coronary attack and death rates.

1990 • 442 citations

Coronary Heart Disease and Physical Activity of Work

1958 • 434 citations

A Natural History of Athleticism and Cardiovascular Health

1984 • 397 citations

Exercise Intensity and Longevity in Men

1995 • 369 citations

Effect of strenuous exercise on platelet activation state and reactivity.

1993 • 310 citations

Work Activity of Longshoremen as Related to Death from Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke

1970 • 277 citations

Reduction of Coronary Atherosclerosis by Moderate Conditioning Exercise in Monkeys on an Atherogenic Diet

1981 • 275 citations

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND RISK OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, CEREBRAL STROKE AND DEATH

1982 • 253 citations

Risk due to inactivity in physically capable older adults.

1993 • 245 citations

Leisure time physical activity and coronary heart disease death. The US Railroad Study.

1989 • 240 citations

Medicine: An Illustrated History

1979 • 228 citations

REDUCTION OF PREMATURE MORTALITY BY HIGH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: A 20-YEAR FOLLOW-UP OF MIDDLE-AGED FINNISH MEN

1987 • 185 citations

PHYSICAL FITNESS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE MORTALITY

1988 • 169 citations

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

1991 • 161 citations

CHRONIC DISEASE IN FORMER COLLEGE STUDENTS

1966 • 138 citations

On crossed aphasia

1899 • 119 citations

Continuum of Cardiovascular Performance Across a Broad Range of Fitness Levels in Healthy Older Men

1996 • 109 citations

Physical training increases ventricular fibrillation thresholds of isolated rat hearts during normoxia, hypoxia and regional ischemia.

1983 • 83 citations

An Investigation into the Longevity of Cambridge Sportsmen

1954 • 81 citations

Vigorous exercise in leisure time and the death rate: a study of male civil servants.

1978 • 76 citations

CORONARY HEART DISEASE IN FORMER FOOTBALL PLAYERS

1958 • 62 citations

The Relation of Muscular Activity to Carcinoma: A Preliminary Report

1921 • 35 citations

Longevity of Oarsmen

1939 • 33 citations