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Am J Epidemiol 2004; 159:910-911.
Copyright © 2004 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Physical Activity Epidemiology

Ralph S. Paffenbarger, Jr.1,2

1 Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305
2 Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115

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By Rod K. Dishman, Gregory W. Heath, and Richard Washburn

ISBN 0-88011-605-6, Human Kinetics, Champaign, Illinois (Telephone: 800-747-4457, Fax: 217-351-1549, Website: http://www.humankinetics.com), 2004, 488 pp., $59 (hardcover)

Only in the past 50–60 years have the unique and fundamental contributions of epidemiology been recognized; epidemiology offers both a means to understand the causes of chronic diseases and procedures to prevent and control such diseases. Both prospective and retrospective longitudinal observations have been used successfully to accomplish these purposes. The most reliable of such observations have examined host and environmental characteristics of cohorts of special populations in relation to the development of specific chronic diseases. For example, many prospective cohort . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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