Physical Activity and Serum Lipids: A Cross-sectional Population Study in Eastern Finnish Men

The authors studied the association of the type, amount, and intensity of physical activity with serum lipids in 2,492 randomly selected eastern Finnish men aged 42–60 years during 1984–1989, controlling for the major confounding factors. High density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL cholesterol) and HDL2 cholesterol were associated positively and triglycerides inversely with total, occupational, and leisure time activity in a multivariate...