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Benefits, risks, barriers, and facilitators to cycling: a narrative review

There is large potential to increase cycling participation worldwide. Participation in cycling is associated with lower risk of mortality from any cause, and incidence of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, as well as positive mental health and well-being. The largest potential for health ga...

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Autores principales: Logan, Greig, Somers, Camilla, Baker, Graham, Connell, Hayley, Gray, Stuart, Kelly, Paul, McIntosh, Emma, Welsh, Paul, Gray, Cindy M., Gill, Jason M. R.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10546027/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37795314
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2023.1168357
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author Logan, Greig
Somers, Camilla
Baker, Graham
Connell, Hayley
Gray, Stuart
Kelly, Paul
McIntosh, Emma
Welsh, Paul
Gray, Cindy M.
Gill, Jason M. R.
author_facet Logan, Greig
Somers, Camilla
Baker, Graham
Connell, Hayley
Gray, Stuart
Kelly, Paul
McIntosh, Emma
Welsh, Paul
Gray, Cindy M.
Gill, Jason M. R.
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description There is large potential to increase cycling participation worldwide. Participation in cycling is associated with lower risk of mortality from any cause, and incidence of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, as well as positive mental health and well-being. The largest potential for health gains likely to come from increasing participation amongst those who do not currently cycle regularly, rather than encouraging those who already cycle regularly to cycle more. Replacing car journeys with cycling can lead to reductions in air pollution emissions and lower pollutant exposure to the general population. Important gaps and uncertainties in the existing evidence base include: the extent to which the health benefits associated with cycling participation are fully causal due to the observational nature of much of the existing evidence base; the real-world economic cost-benefits of pragmatic interventions to increase cycling participation; and the most effective (combination of) approaches to increase cycling participation. To address these uncertainties, large-scale, long-term randomised controlled trials are needed to: evaluate the effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness, of (combinations of) intervention approaches to induce sustained long-term increases in cycling participation in terms of increases in numbers of people cycling regularly and number of cycling journeys undertaken, across a range of population demographic groups; establish the effects of such interventions on relevant outcomes related to health and wellbeing, economic productivity and wider societal impacts; and provide more robust quantification of potential harms of increasing cycling participation, such as collision risks.
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spelling pubmed-105460272023-10-04 Benefits, risks, barriers, and facilitators to cycling: a narrative review Logan, Greig Somers, Camilla Baker, Graham Connell, Hayley Gray, Stuart Kelly, Paul McIntosh, Emma Welsh, Paul Gray, Cindy M. Gill, Jason M. R. Front Sports Act Living Sports and Active Living There is large potential to increase cycling participation worldwide. Participation in cycling is associated with lower risk of mortality from any cause, and incidence of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, as well as positive mental health and well-being. The largest potential for health gains likely to come from increasing participation amongst those who do not currently cycle regularly, rather than encouraging those who already cycle regularly to cycle more. Replacing car journeys with cycling can lead to reductions in air pollution emissions and lower pollutant exposure to the general population. Important gaps and uncertainties in the existing evidence base include: the extent to which the health benefits associated with cycling participation are fully causal due to the observational nature of much of the existing evidence base; the real-world economic cost-benefits of pragmatic interventions to increase cycling participation; and the most effective (combination of) approaches to increase cycling participation. To address these uncertainties, large-scale, long-term randomised controlled trials are needed to: evaluate the effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness, of (combinations of) intervention approaches to induce sustained long-term increases in cycling participation in terms of increases in numbers of people cycling regularly and number of cycling journeys undertaken, across a range of population demographic groups; establish the effects of such interventions on relevant outcomes related to health and wellbeing, economic productivity and wider societal impacts; and provide more robust quantification of potential harms of increasing cycling participation, such as collision risks. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10546027/ /pubmed/37795314 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2023.1168357 Text en © 2023 Logan, Somers, Baker, Connell, Gray, Kelly, McIntosh, Welsh, Gray and Gill. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Gill, Jason M. R.
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