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ReviewPostgraduate medical journal2014

Physical activity is medicine for older adults.

Denise Taylor

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Review in Postgraduate medical journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 165 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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165citing papers in PubMed, 11 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

165 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Interventions that prolong multidimensional healthspan in humans: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Denise TaylorFaculty of Health & Environmental Sciences, Health & Rehabilitation Research Institute, North Shore Campus, AUT University, , Auckland, New Zealand.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is evidence from high quality studies to strongly support the positive association between increased levels of physical activity, exercise participation and improved health in older adults. Worldwide, around 3.2 million deaths per year are being attributed to inactivity. In industrialised countries where people are living longer lives, the levels of chronic health conditions are increasing and the levels of physical activity are declining. Key factors in improving health are exercising at a moderate-to-vigorous level for at least 5 days per week and including both aerobic and strengthening exercises. Few older adults achieve the level of physical activity or exercise that accompanies health improvements. A challenge for health professionals is to increase physical activity and exercise participation in older adults. Some success in this has been reported when physicians have given specific, detailed and localised information to their patients, but more high quality research is needed to continue to address this issue of non-participation in physical activity and exercise of a high enough level to ensure health benefits.

Indexed as

ExercisePublic HealthSmoking PreventionAgedAged, 80 and overBlood GlucoseFemaleGuidelines as TopicHealth EducationHealth PromotionHumansHypertensionMaleMiddle AgedMotor ActivityObesityBlood GlucoseGERIATRIC MEDICINEPREVENTIVE MEDICINEPUBLIC HEALTH

Identifiers

PMID24255119
PMCPMC3888599

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