Exercise profile and subseqent mortality in an elderly Australian population

Authors :: Finucane, P.
Giles, L.C.
Withers, R.T.
Silagy, C.A.
Sedgwick, A.
Hamdorf, P.A.
Halbert, J.A.
Cobiac, L.
Clark, M.S.
Andrews, G.R.
Source :: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. April, 1997, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p155, 4 p.
Publication Year :: 1997
Abstract: Exercise as a public health issue has been increasingly recognized, but studies have not paid much attention to its importance for the very old. The author bases this conclusion on a study of 1788 respondents to the Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing aged 70 and over, which showed an inverse relation of mortality rates at two years follow-up to the level of exercise at baseline.