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Urbanization disproportionately reduces occupational and household physical activity, while potentially increasing transport and recreational activity in High-Income Countries.

In urban areas, your job and home chores likely provide less physical activity than they did in rural settings. To maintain health, you must intentionally engage in leisure-time exercise or active transport, as urbanization naturally shifts you away from labor-intensive activities.

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The largest negative associations were observed for occupational and household PA, while positive associations were observed for transport and recreational PA.
Kwadwo Boakye et al. · Scientific Reports · 2023

Why this rating

Large sample, stratified by income level, but self-reported PA.

Source

Urbanization and physical activity in the global Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology study

Kwadwo Boakye et al. · Scientific Reports · 2023

cross_sectional · n=138206Cited 80×
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