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ReviewSports medicine and health science2019

Physical activity, exercise, and chronic diseases: A brief review.

Elizabeth Anderson, J Larry Durstine

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Review in Sports medicine and health science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 452 papers, 18 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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452citing papers in PubMed, 18 pooled it
47.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

452 citing papers in PubMed, 18 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 932 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Interventions on Barriers to the Participation of Adolescents in Physical Activity: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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392 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elizabeth AndersonDepartment of Exercise Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
J Larry DurstineDepartment of Exercise Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
University of South Carolina · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide with increasing prevalence in all age groups, genders, and ethnicities. Most chronic disease deaths occur in middle-to low-income countries but are also a significant health problem in developed nations. Multiple chronic diseases now affect children and adolescents as well as adults. Being physically inactive is associated with increased chronic disease risk. Global societies are being negatively impacted by the increasing prevalence of chronic disease which is directly related to rising healthcare expenditures, workforce complications regarding attendance and productivity, military personnel recruitment, and academic success. However, increased physical activity (PA) and exercise are associated with reduced chronic disease risk. Most physiologic systems in the body benefit positively from PA and exercise by primary disease prevention and secondary disease prevention/treatment. The purpose of this brief review is to describe the significant global problem of chronic diseases for adults and children, and how PA and exercise can provide a non-invasive means for added prevention and treatment.

Indexed as

CancerCardiovascular diseaseChronic diseaseDiabetesExerciseNoncommunicable diseasesObesityPhysical activity

Identifiers

PMID35782456
PMCPMC9219321
OpenAlexW2975703213

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