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Physical activity, genes for physical fitness, and risk of coronary heart disease.
Medicine and science in sports and exercise - 1 Apr 2013
Chomistek Andrea K, Chasman Daniel I, Cook Nancy R, Rimm Eric B, Lee I-Min
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PURPOSE: Both physical activity and physical fitness are associated with decreased coronary heart disease (CHD) risk. Our objective was to determine whether genes associated with physical fitness modify the association between physical activity and CHD. METHODS: We conducted a prospective cohort study among 23,016 initially healthy women in the Women's Genome Health Study. Leisure time physical activity was...
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