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Does Strength-Promoting Exercise Confer Unique Health Benefits? A Pooled Analysis of Data on 11 Population Cohorts With All-Cause, Cancer, and Cardiovascular Mortality Endpoints
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Public health guidance includes recommendations to engage in strength-promoting exercise (SPE), but there is little evidence on its links with mortality. Using data from the Health Survey for England and the Scottish Health Survey from 1994-2008, we examined the associations between SPE (gym-based and own-body-weight strength activities) and all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular disease mortality. Multivariable-adjusted Cox regression was used to examine the associations between SPE (any, low-/high-volume, and adherence to the SPE guideline (≥2 sessions/week)) and mortality. The core sample comprised 80,306 adults aged ≥30 years, corresponding to 5,763 any-cause deaths (736,463 person-years). Following exclusions for prevalent disease/events occurring in the first 24 months, participation in any SPE was favorably associated with all-cause (hazard ratio (HR) = 0.77, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.69, 0.87) and cancer (HR = 0.69, 95% CI: 0.56, 0.86) mortality. Adhering only to the SPE guideline was associated with all-cause (HR = 0.79, 95% CI: 0.66, 0.94) and cancer (HR = 0.66, 95% CI: 0.48, 0.92) mortality; adhering only to the aerobic activity guideline (equivalent to 150 minutes/week of moderate-intensity activity) was associated with all-cause (HR = 0.84, 95% CI: 0.78, 0.90) and cardiovascular disease (HR = 0.78, 95% CI: 0.68, 0.90) mortality. Adherence to both guidelines was associated with all-cause (HR = 0.71, 95% CI: 0.57, 0.87) and cancer (HR = 0.70, 95% CI: 0.50, 0.98) mortality. Our results support promoting adherence to the strength exercise guidelines over and above the generic physical activity targets.
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- Authors
- Stamatakis, E., Lee, I. M., Bennie, J., Freeston, J., Hamer, M., O’Donovan, G., Ding, D., Bauman, A., & Mavros, Y.
- Affiliations
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Victoria University (AU)
- Loughborough University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Stamatakis, Emmanuel
- ORCID
- Venue
- American Journal of Epidemiology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2017-10-31
- Volume
- 187
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1102-1112
- ISSN
- 0002-9262 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-6256
- OpenAlex
- W2766901730
- Cited by
- 198
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 33 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 18
- FWCI
- 13.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- American Journal of Epidemiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Victoria University Research Repository (Victoria University) (submittedVersion)
- Loughborough University Institutional Repository (Loughborough University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Loughborough University Research Repository (Loughborough University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- National Institute for Health Research
- National Health and Medicine Research Council
- National Institute for Health Research Leicester Biomedical Research Center
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Physical Activity and Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Exercise and Physiological Responses
- Keywords
- resistance training, all-cause mortality, cancer mortality, cardiovascular mortality, physical activity guidelines, exercise adherence, gym-based exercise, aerobic exercise, Health Survey for England, Scottish Health Survey
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Cardiovascular Diseases, Cause of Death, England, Female, Health Promotion, Health Surveys, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, Population Surveillance, Scotland, Cohort Studies, Resistance Training
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