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Leisure time physical activity throughout adulthood is associated with lower medicare costs: evidence from the linked NIH-AARP diet and health study cohort

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  • Diarmuid Coughlan Health Economics Group, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UKSurveillance Research Program, Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Pedro F Saint-Maurice Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Susan A Carlson Physical Activity and Health Branch, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Janet Fulton Physical Activity and Health Branch, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Charles E Matthews Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Diarmuid Coughlan; diarmuid.coughlan{at}newcastle.ac.uk
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Coughlan D, Saint-Maurice PF, Carlson SA, et al
Leisure time physical activity throughout adulthood is associated with lower medicare costs: evidence from the linked NIH-AARP diet and health study cohort
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine 2021;7:e001038. doi: 10.1136/bmjsem-2021-001038

Publication history

  • Accepted February 15, 2021
  • First published March 5, 2021.
Online issue publication 
July 06, 2022

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