WALKING, CYCLING, OR GARDENING, WITH OR WITHOUT SEASONAL INTERRUPTION, IN RELATION TO ACUTE CORONARY EVENTS

1 December 1979

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Epidemiology

Vol. 110 (6) , 724-733
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a112853

Abstract

The case-referent study reported here investigates the relationship between acute coronary events (ACE) and sustained light physical exercise, mainly leisure-time walking, cycling, or gardening (WCG). These activities are classified as habitual WCG (4 months), each category being further sub divided according to the number of hours a week: >4 hours, 4–7 hours, or 4 months/year).

Keywords

ANGINA
CORONARY HEART DISEASE
HYPERTENSION
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
SMOKING

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Occupational Physical Activity and the Degree of Coronary Atherosclerosis in "Normal" Men
Circulation, 1960