Physical activity and its promotion, as well as the avoidance of sedentary behaviour, play
important roles in health promotion and prevention of lifestyle‐related diseases. Guidelines …

Obesity has been increasing in epidemic proportions, with a disproportionately higher
increase in morbid or class III obesity, and obesity adversely affects cardiovascular (CV) …

Methods We aimed to prospectively examine individual and joint associations of low muscle
mass and low muscle strength with all-cause mortality in a nationally representative sample …

Objectives To explore the extent to which muscular strength in adolescence is associated
with all cause and cause specific premature mortality (< 55 years). Design Prospective …

Muscular strength, an important component of physical fitness, has an independent role in
the prevention of chronic diseases whereas muscular weakness is strongly related to …

This review discusses the associations of muscular strength (MusS) with cardiovascular
disease (CVD), CVD-related death, and all-cause mortality, as well as CVD risk factors, such …

Dynapenia (pronounced dahy-nuh-pē-nē-a, Greek translation for poverty of strength, power,
or force) is the age-associated loss of muscle strength that is not caused by neurologic or …

282 SWIFT DL et al. multivariate models. Li et al observed that women in the Nurse's Health
Study (n= 88,393) who were moderately active (1–3.49 h/week) and active (≥ 3.5 h/week) …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of resistance training alone on the
systolic and diastolic blood pressure in prehypertensive and hypertensive individuals. Our …

Living longer without simultaneously extending years spent in good health (“health span”) is
an increasing societal burden, demanding new therapeutic strategies. Hydrogen sulfide …