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Physical activity and the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, severe COVID-19 illness and COVID-19 related mortality in South Korea: a nationwide cohort study

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  • Seung Won Lee Department of Data Science, Sejong University College of Software Convergence, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jinhee Lee Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea (the Republic of) PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sung Yong Moon Department of Data Science, Sejong University College of Software Convergence, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hyun Young Jin Department of Data Science, Sejong University College of Software Convergence, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jee Myung Yang Department of Ophthalmology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Shuji Ogino Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mingyang Song Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sung Hwi Hong Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ramy Abou Ghayda Urology Institute, University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Andreas Kronbichler Deparment of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ai Koyanagi Research and Development Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu, CIBERSAM, Barcelona, Spain Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Pg. Lluis Companys, Barcelona, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Louis Jacob Research and Development Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu, CIBERSAM, Barcelona, Spain Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain Faculty of Medicine, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Elena Dragioti Pain and Rehabilitation Centre and Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linkoping, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lee Smith The Cambridge Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Edward Giovannucci Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • I-Min Lee Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Dong Hoon Lee Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Keum Hwa Lee Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Youn Ho Shin Department of Pediatrics, CHA Gangnam Medical Center, CHA University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • So Young Kim Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University School of Medicine, Seongnam, Korea (the Republic of) PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Min Seo Kim Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Sciences and Technology (SAIHST), Sungkyunkwan University, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hong-Hee Won Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Sciences and Technology (SAIHST), Sungkyunkwan University, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ulf Ekelund Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Oslo, Norway Department of Chronic Diseases and Ageing, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jae Il Shin Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Dong Keon Yon Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Dong Keon Yon, Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 08826, Korea (the Republic of); yonkkang{at}gmail.com; Professor Seung Won Lee, Department of Data Science, Sejong University College of Software Convergence, Seoul 03722, Korea (the Republic of); lsw2920{at}gmail.com; Professor Jae Il Shin, Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Korea (the Republic of); shinji{at}yuhs.ac
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Lee SW, Lee J, Moon SY, et al
Physical activity and the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, severe COVID-19 illness and COVID-19 related mortality in South Korea: a nationwide cohort study
British Journal of Sports Medicine 2022;56:901-912.

Publication history

  • Accepted June 30, 2021
  • First published July 22, 2021.
Online issue publication 
November 15, 2022

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