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American Journal of Epidemiology 2007 166(5):616; doi:10.1093/aje/kwm208
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2007. Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: "AGING, RETIREMENT, AND CHANGES IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: PROSPECTIVE COHORT FINDINGS FROM THE GLOBE STUDY"

Kène Henkens1, Hanna van Solinge1 and William Gallo2

1 Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague, Netherlands 2502 AR
2 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8034

(e-mail: Henkens@nidi.nl)

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In their recent article, Slingerland et al. (1) state that retirement offers opportunities for changes in physical activity that may improve the health of older adults, where postretirement physical activity is defined by participation in sports and nonsports leisure-time activity. The authors find that retirement reduces work-related transport activity without an offsetting increase in the other activities. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Am. J. Epidemiol., September 1, 2007; 166(5): 616 - 617.
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