Association of moderate and vigorous physical activity with cognitive performance: results from the ELSI‐Brasil Study
Ingryd Mayara Nascimento Martins‐Pais, Wendell Lima Rabelo, Naomi Vidal‐Ferreira, Cleusa P Ferri, Claudia Kimie Suemoto, Natalia G Gonçalves · 2025
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Description
Ingryd Mayara Nascimento Martins-Pais and co-authors examine a 2025 study of exercise and thinking skills in older adults in Brazil. Their data came from a long study of aging that included more than nine thousand adults aged fifty or more. Tests covered memory, sense of date and time, and naming words. People also reported how much moderate and hard exercise they did each week.
After some records were set aside, just under eight thousand people remained in the study. Those who did at least the advised amount of moderate exercise scored better on thinking tests overall. Doing far more than that amount was also linked to better scores. Hard exercise, by contrast, showed no clear link to test scores in this group. The authors note that moderate weekly activity may help protect the aging brain.
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| CREATOR | Ingryd Mayara Nascimento Martins‐Pais, Wendell Lima Rabelo, Naomi Vidal‐Ferreira, Cleusa P Ferri, Claudia Kimie Suemoto, Natalia G Gonçalves |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |