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University students are less physically active and more sedentary than older adults in their 70s, study finds

Researchers at the Centre for Sleep and Cognition at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) have found that, on average, university students are significantly less physically active and more sedentary than…

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Researchers at the Centre for Sleep and Cognition at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) have found that, on average, university students are significantly less physically active and more sedentary than community-dwelling older adults in their 70s—upending conventional expectations that physical activity declines with age.

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