Association between physical activity energy expenditure and cardiometabolic risk factor clustering among Chinese adults in 2015

Chen, Xiaorong; Zhang, Mei; Wang, Limin; Huang, Zhengjing; Zhang, Wenrong; Wu, Jing

doi:10.1016/j.smhs.2022.04.002

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“…Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the major cause of death worldwide [ 1 ], and risk factors such as physical inactivity (PI) combined with sedentary behavior (SB) play a role in CVD mortality [ 2 , 3 , 4 ]. Overwhelming evidence suggests that the greater the physical activity (PA), the lower the all-cause mortality and CVD mortality, and cardiometabolic risk factors show a decreasing tendency with increasing physical activity [ 5 , 6 ]. Although overwhelming evidence exists demonstrating that following a physically active lifestyle is associated with promoting health, many efforts to comply with this advice fail, and even the minimum 150 min of physical activity per week recommended by the World Health Organization cannot be reached; about one third of adults worldwide are classified as sedentary or physically inactive; in particular, this percentage is apparently higher in developed countries, and aging countries regardless of region [ 7 ].…”

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Regular Tennis Exercise May Improve the Vascular Endothelial Function in Postmenopausal Women: The Influence of Hemodynamics

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Physical inactivity plays a role in the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Although the current guidelines for physical activity, such as the prescription of exercise, seek to combat CVD, attaining the recommended targets remains challenging. Tennis exercise has been proven to have a unique advantage in reducing the mortality of CVD, but little is known about the influence of playing tennis on impaired vascular endothelial function (VEF), which initiates CVD. Thus, this study aimed to investigate whether regular tennis participation could protect the VEF better than merely meeting the physical activity recommended by the current guidelines. A cross-sectional design was performed based on a sample of 38 healthy postmenopausal women who were matched for physical activity, of which 17 subjects had long-term tennis experience and 21 age-matched subjects regularly exercised but did not play tennis. The cardiovascular function and the body composition of all subjects were measured. We used cluster analysis to assess the overall health status. The modeling results showed that the tennis players performed better in terms of VEF than the nonplayers (10.55 ± 0.58 vs. 8.69 ± 0.52, p < 0.01, R2ad = 0.367), while the wall shear stress positively correlated with VEF (r = 0.505, p < 0.05), after controlling for age and physical activity levels. Regular tennis exercise may be a protective factor for VEF, and further study should be performed to research the role of hemodynamics in tennis exercise.

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