Physical Activity and Stroke Risk: A Meta-Analysis

By Chong-Do Lee, A. Folsom, S. Blair. Stroke, 2003

838 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Exercise as medicine – evidence for prescribing exercise as therapy in 26 different chronic diseases (2015, background): “…inactivity in epidemiological studies is a prognostic factor for apoplexy (Wannamethee & Shaper, 1992; Lindenstrom et al., 1993; Ellekjaer et al., 2000; Lee et al., 2003; Wendel-Vos et al., 2004; Hu et al., 2007; Krarup et al., 2007; Krarup et al., 2008; Sui et al., 2007; Boysen & Krarup, 2009).”
Cardiovascular disease, diabetes and established risk factors among populations of sub-Saharan African descent in Europe: a literature review (2009, neutral): “Physical inactivity represents an independent risk factor for CVD [109] and exercise is recommended to prevent CVD and promote and maintain healthy living [110,111].”
Stroke Risk Factors, Genetics, and Prevention (2017, background): “Based on biological plausibility and evidence from pooled analysis from large prospective cohort and retrospective case–control studies, it is generally accepted that there is a lifelong inverse relationship between physical exercise and stroke.(222,231) Compared with physically inactive individuals”