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Respiratory epidemiology
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Leisure-time vigorous physical activity is associated with better lung function: the prospective ECRHS study

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  • Elaine Fuertes Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Anne-Elie Carsin Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Josep M Antó Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Roberto Bono Department of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Turin, Turin, Italy PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Angelo Guido Corsico Division of Respiratory Diseases, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, Pavia, Italy Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Pascal Demoly Département de Pneumologie et Addictologie, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, University Hospital of Montpellier, Montpellier, France UMR-S 1136 INSERM, IPLESP, UPMC, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Thorarinn Gislason Department of Respiratory Medicine and Sleep, Landspitali University Hospital Reykjavik, Reykjavik, Iceland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • José-Antonio Gullón Department of Pneumology, Hospital San Agustín, Avilés, Asturias, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Christer Janson Department of Medical Sciences: Respiratory, Allergy and Sleep Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Deborah Jarvis MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, UK Department of Population Health and Occupational Diseases, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Joachim Heinrich Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mathias Holm Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Bénédicte Leynaert Inserm, UMR 1152, Pathophysiology and Epidemiology of Respiratory Diseases, Paris, France UMR 1152, University Paris Diderot Paris, Paris, France PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alessandro Marcon Unit of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, University of Verona, Verona, Italy PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jesús Martinez-Moratalla Servicio de Neumología del Complejo, Servicio de Salud de Castilla – La Mancha (SESCAM), Hospitalario Universitario de Albacete, Albacete, Spain Facultad de Medicina de Albacete, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Albacete, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Dennis Nowak Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich (CPC-M), Munich, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Silvia Pascual Erquicia Respiratory Department, Galdakao Hospital, OSI Barrualde-Galdakao, Biscay, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nicole M Probst-Hensch Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland Department of Public Health, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Chantal Raherison U1219, Bordeaux University, Bordeaux, France PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Wasif Raza Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Francisco Gómez Real Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Melissa Russell Allergy and Lung Health Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • José Luis Sánchez-Ramos Department of Nursing, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Joost Weyler Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Judith Garcia Aymerich Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Elaine Fuertes, ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona 08003, Spain; elaine.fuertes{at}isglobal.org
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Fuertes E, Carsin A, Antó JM, et al
Leisure-time vigorous physical activity is associated with better lung function: the prospective ECRHS study
Thorax 2018;73:376-384.

Publication history

  • Received August 23, 2017
  • Revised November 9, 2017
  • Accepted December 4, 2017
  • First published January 6, 2018.
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September 01, 2022

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