Cardiac Exercise Research Group began collecting data on the effects of exercise training on all-cause mortality in older adults (70-77 years) for an ongoing longitudinal study called Generation 100.
To date, this is one of the largest (N = 1,567) randomized and controlled clinical trials to investigate how exercise affects mortality and morbidity in the elderly.
The underlying research question for this study, which began in 2012, was simple: "Can exercise help people live longer?" After almost a decade, the results are in: These research findings (Stensvold et al., 2020) were published on October 7 in the BMJ.
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