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SUBMITTER: Milgrom Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3777183 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Milgrom Yael Y Milgrom Charles C Constantini Naama N Applbaum Yaakov Y Radeva-Petrova Denitsa D Finestone Aharon S AS
BioMed research international 20130905
To evaluate the effect of the extremes of long term high and low physical activities on musculoskeletal heath in middle age, a historical cohort study was performed. The MRI knee and back findings of 25 randomly selected subjects who were inducted into the armed forces in 1983 and served at least 3 years as elite infantry soldiers were compared 25 years later, with 20 randomly selected subjects who were deferred from army service for full time religious studies at the same time. Both cohorts wer ...[more]