Open AccessAnd What About Exercise? Fitness and Risk of Death in “Low‐Risk” Adults
Author(s) -
Lauer Michael S.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of the american heart association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.494
H-Index - 85
ISSN - 2047-9980
DOI - 10.1161/jaha.112.003228
Subject(s) - medicine , gerontology , opposition (politics) , law , politics , political science
Leafing through this morning's Sunday paper, I could not help but feel a sense of unease about our current state of preventive medicine. A lead article in the opinion section argued that most of the elements of the “annual physical exam” are “in many ways pointless or (worse) dangerous.”[1][
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