ASSOCIATIONS OF RELATIVE INTENSITY OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY WITH INCIDENT CARDIOVASCULAR OUTCOMES AND MORTALITY

Benjamin Schumacher, Michael LaMonte, Chongzhi Di, Humberto Parada Jr, Steven Hooker, John Bellettiere, Eleanor Simonsick, Andrea LaCroix · 2023

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Benjamin Schumacher and co-authors compare effort scaled and raw measures of daily activity against heart disease and death. Their paper from 2023 starts from a simple point: the same walk costs an older person a larger share of their top effort than a younger one. Raw energy counts miss that gap.

Wrist sensor data came from a study of older women with a mean age near seventy eight and a half. Daily hours of light and stronger activity were built on both scales. Each added hour cut risk on both scales. One hour of light raw activity cut both outcome risks by about twelve percent, while an hour of strong raw activity cut death risk by forty five percent. Effort scaled light activity linked yet more strongly.

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CREATORBenjamin Schumacher, Michael LaMonte, Chongzhi Di, Humberto Parada Jr, Steven Hooker, John Bellettiere, Eleanor Simonsick, Andrea LaCroix
YEAR2023
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE2 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC10736159

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