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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 718789, 14 pages
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Physical Activity, Health Benefits, and Mortality Risk

Peter Kokkinos1,2,3

1Cardiology Department, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 50 Irving Street NW, Washington, DC 20422, USA
2Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Georgetown University, 4000 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC 20057-2197, USA
3Physical Therapy and Health Care Services, George Washington University, 2121 I Street, Washington, DC 20052, USA

Received 5 August 2012; Accepted 7 September 2012

Academic Editors: H.-K. Kim and J. N. Myers

Copyright © 2012 Peter Kokkinos. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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