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ReviewAmerican journal of lifestyle medicine

Exercise Is Medicine.

Walter R Thompson, Robert Sallis, Elizabeth Joy, Carrie A Jaworski, Robyn M Stuhr, Jennifer L Trilk

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Review in American journal of lifestyle medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 96 papers, 5 of them syntheses that 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

96 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. Effects of WatchingCardiovascular & hematological disorders drug targets · 2025
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  12. Physical activity, pain, and iron burden as independent correlates of quality of life in adults with beta-thalassemia major in the United Arab Emirates.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026
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  17. Special Issue "Sports Medicine and Public Health".Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026
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36 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Walter R ThompsonCollege of Education & Human Development, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Robert SallisUC Riverside School of Medicine, Fontana, California.
Elizabeth JoyUniversity of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Carrie A JaworskiUniversity of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
Robyn M StuhrExercise Is Medicine®, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Jennifer L TrilkLifestyle Medicine Education University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is overwhelming evidence in the scientific and medical literature that physical inactivity is a major public health problem with a wide array of harmful effects. Over 50% of health status can be attributed to unhealthy behaviors with smoking, diet, and physical inactivity as the main contributors. Exercise has been used in both the treatment and prevention of a variety of chronic conditions such as heart disease, pulmonary disease, diabetes, and obesity. While the negative effects of physical inactivity are widely known, there is a gap between what physicians tell their patients and exercise compliance. Exercise is Medicine was established in 2007 by the American College of Sports Medicine to inform and educate physicians and other health care providers about exercise as well as bridge the widening gap between health care and health fitness. Physicians have many competing demands at the point of care, which often translates into limited time spent counseling patients. The consistent message from all health care providers to their patients should be to start or to continue a regular exercise program. Exercise is Medicine is a solution that enables physicians to support their patients in implementing exercise as part of their disease prevention and treatment strategies.

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behaviorsexerciseinactivityreferralvitals

Identifiers

PMID32922236
PMCPMC7444006

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