{"doi":"10.2337/dc21-2420","title":"Long-term Weight Training and Mortality in U.S. Male Health Professionals With and Without Type 2 Diabetes","abstract":"OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between long-term weight training and mortality in male health professionals with and without type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: We analyzed 31,140 men without type 2 diabetes and 2,588 with type 2 diabetes from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (1992-2018). Information on weight training was repeatedly assessed using a biennial questionnaire. Cox regression was used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% CIs. RESULTS: During up to 26 years of follow-up, we documented 12,607 deaths (988 deaths among men with type 2 diabetes). Among participants without type 2 diabetes, 1-59 and 60-149 min/week of long-term weight training were associated with 14% (HR 0.86; 95% CI 0.82-0.89) and 8% (HR 0.92; 95% CI 0.85-0.99) lower mortality versus no weight training, respectively, after adjustment for aerobic activity. However, ≥150 min/week of weight training was not significantly associated with mortality (HR 1.05; 95% CI 0.91-1.20; overall P trend = 0.94; P quadratic < 0.001). Meeting the recommended aerobic physical activity guideline (≥150 min/week) and performing any weight training were associated with 20-34% lower mortality. Among participants with type 2 diabetes, a moderate level of pre-diagnosis weight training was associated with lower mortality, whereas post-diagnosis weight training showed no association. Performing both weight training and aerobic activity before and after diagnosis was associated with lower mortality. CONCLUSIONS: A moderate level of long-term weight training was associated with lower mortality, independently of aerobic activity, among male health professionals with and without type 2 diabetes. Addition of weight training to aerobic activities may provide further benefit in mortality risk reduction. Studies are required to confirm our findings in diverse populations.","journal":"Diabetes Care","year":2022,"id":266850,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":9,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.8745,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":347941,"name":"Xiao Luo","orcid":"0000-0001-7822-8281","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":78911,"name":"Leandro F. M. Rezende","orcid":"0000-0002-7469-1399","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":577040,"name":"Hee‐Kyung Joh","orcid":"0000-0003-3854-7012","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":286846,"name":"NaNa Keum","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":14733,"name":"Eric B. Rimm","orcid":"0000-0002-1402-7250","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":230958,"name":"Fred K. Tabung","orcid":"0000-0001-8193-7150","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":269896,"name":"Xuehong Zhang","orcid":"0000-0002-8260-8508","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":86230,"name":"Edward L. Giovannucci","orcid":"0000-0002-6123-0219","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":240836,"name":"Dong Hoon Lee","orcid":"0000-0003-1329-4637","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":40,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:26:58.102271Z","pmid":"36409604","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}