Article
Physical activity, genes, and lifetime predisposition to chronic disease
2011-01-04
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Abstract This mini-review summarizes the main associations between physical activity and chronic diseases and discusses the basic concepts related to the role of genetic factors in studies evaluating the effects of physical activity/exercise therapy on chronic disease prevention/treatment during the life course. Many observational cohort studies have shown that high physical activity during young adulthood or midd...
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- Literature Corpus work
- de91ef43-d914-5bdf-9d6d-b0a782391fc5
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11556-010-0077-2
