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Does being physically active prevent future disability in older people? Attenuated effects when taking time-dependent confounders into account

BACKGROUND: Causal experimental evidence that physical activity prevents disability in older people is sparse. Being physically active has nonetheless been shown to be associated with disability-free survival in observational studies. Observational studies are, however, prone to bias introduced by t...

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Autores principales: Kreisel, Stefan H., Blahak, Christian, Bäzner, Hansjörg, Hennerici, Michael G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5740527/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29268707
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-017-0657-3

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