Atividade física de adultos nas capitais brasileiras e no Distrito Federal: um estudo transversal

Tendência temporal da participação em atividade física no lazer na cidade de Curitiba, Brasil (2006-2015)

“…Although the analyzes highlighted the trend of leisure-time PA growth among women, men still make up the majority of the active population in this city. This higher male prevalence is in agreement with previous studies [18][19][20][21] . Thus, even in view of the positive growth trend of women active during leisure-time, the results of the present study suggest disparities regarding the opportunities offered to them in relation to spending their leisure time on PA, and may even infer that women need greater encouragement and opportunities to spend their free time on AF, without affecting what is offered to men.…”

Prática de futebol recreativo entre adultos residentes nas capitais brasileiras, 2011-2015*

“…In 26 state capitals and the Federal District, were applied face to face interviews with 8,902 participants of both sexes, athletes and non-athletes under the age of 14 to 75 years. 9 The study revealed that the percentage of interruption of the practice of sport in the country was 26.8% at 15 years old, 45% among 16 and 24, 18% to 25-34, and 6.1% among 35 and 44 years.…”

“…In addition, the recreational soccer players were in more advanced age when compared to practitioners of other sports. 9 One of the few studies on population data to describe the characteristics of recreational soccer players in Brazil was developed in the year 2011. Based on data from 54,369 interviews by telephone survey of the VIGITEL system applied in the year of 2006, this survey revealed 77.4% of recreational soccer players under the age of 35 years and schooling up to 8 complete years of study.…”

“…A study conducted in 2014 ranked the level of PA of 52,779 brazilians adults in four categories -Inactive, moderately active, active and very active -and found 52% of inactive individuals in leisure-time, with predominance of physical inactivity among women (60%) and linear increase of inactive with the advance of age for both sexes. 9 This scenario becomes even more worrying when it is verified that the growth of the participation of adults in PA in leisure-time was only slightly in the period from 2006 to 2013. [10][11][12] Another study, this performed in 2010, involving the adult population of 25 Member States of the European Union (n=23,909), showed that in France, Latvia, UK, Belgium, Spain, Netherlands and Greece, men aged 18 to 34 years of age were more likely to participate in recreational sport, when compared to women of the same age and men with 55 years or more.…”

O padrão da atividade física de brasileiros diabéticos

“…22;23 Para Bird e Hawley 27 , a quantidade de esforço subótima pode explicar em parte, porque muitos diabéticos com AF insuficiente não têm melhorado o controle da glicemia na mesma proporção quando comparados com os diabéticos suficientemente ativos.A situação mais prejudicial encontrada para a saúde dos diabéticos foi a ausência completa de AF para a maior parte deles (55%). Embora ocorram algumas divergências entre as diretrizes em relação ao modo ideal de se obter o volume mínimo de AF para alcançar os efeitos substanciais de saúde, é consenso entre elas que a magnitude do efeito da AF nos diabéticos é mais pronunciada quando os inativos incorporam algum grau de AF do que pelo incremento de atividade entre os ativos [25][26][27]. Neste sentido, iniciar a prática de alguma AF parece ser para a maior parte dos diabéticos, o passo mais importante.A caminhada foi relatada por aproximadamente 67% dos diabéticos como a principal modalidade de exercício físico.…”