Article
Fitness, Physical Activity, and Cardiovascular Disease: Longitudinal and Genetic Analyses in the UK Biobank Study
2017-05-12
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background</h4> Exercise is inversely related with cardiovascular disease (CVD), but large-scale studies of incident CVD events are lacking. Moreover, little is known about genetic determinants of fitness and physical activity, and modifiable effects of exercise in individuals with elevated genetic risk of CVD. Finally, causal analyses of exercise traits are limited. <h4>Methods</h4> We estimated association...
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- Literature Corpus work
- cb027d22-fb27-5f6b-a8f1-775e95b950c7
- DOI
- 10.1101/136192
