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Accelerometer measured physical activity and the incidence of cardiovascular disease: Evidence from the UK Biobank cohort study

  • Rema Ramakrishnan,

    Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6784-8319

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  • Aiden Doherty,

    Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, National Institute of Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

    ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1840-0451

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  • Karl Smith-Byrne,

    Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Genetic Epidemiology Group, Lyon, France

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  • Kazem Rahimi,

    Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, National Institute of Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom, Deep Medicine, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom

    ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4807-4610

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  • Derrick Bennett,

    Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations National Institute of Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom, Clinical Trials Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9170-8447

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  • Mark Woodward,

    Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations The George Institute for Global Health, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States of America

    ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9800-5296

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  • Rosemary Walmsley,

    Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1916-2478

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  • Terence Dwyer

    Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    * E-mail: terence.dwyer@wrh.ox.ac.uk

    Affiliations Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia

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Accelerometer measured physical activity and the incidence of cardiovascular disease: Evidence from the UK Biobank cohort study

  • Rema Ramakrishnan, 
  • Aiden Doherty, 
  • Karl Smith-Byrne, 
  • Kazem Rahimi, 
  • Derrick Bennett, 
  • Mark Woodward, 
  • Rosemary Walmsley, 
  • Terence Dwyer
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  • Published: January 12, 2021
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003487
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