Fundamental questions about genes, inactivity, and chronic diseases
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Fundamental questions about genes, inactivity, and chronic diseases.
Currently our society is faced with the challenge of understanding the biological basis for the epidemics of obesity and many chronic diseases, including Type 2 diabetes. Physical inactivity increases the relative risk of coronary artery disease by 45%, stroke by 60%, hypertension by 30%, and osteoporosis by 59%. Moreover, physical inactivity is cited as an actual cause of chronic disease by th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physiological Genomics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1094-8341,1531-2267
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00174.2006