Physical activity and prevalence of hypertension in a population-based sample of Brazilian adults and elderly

Early physical activity promotes lower prevalence of chronic diseases in adulthood

“…20 Methodological differences may explain the discrepancy between that study and the present study. In our study, childhood and adolescence are considered both separately and in combination (with the variable combining both periods presenting the more restricted 95% CI for its OR), whereas in the other study, early physical activity was considered only during adolescence.…”

“…Thus, our findings show that considering both childhood and adolescence makes the association more consistent than those made in an isolated manner. Moreover, our definition of childhood and adolescent physical activity required at least 12 months of practice, whereas the Reichert et al 20 study used a 6-month period.…”

Socioeconomic status and hypertension

“…The search strategy for the 1860 unique references is presented in Fig. Of these, 34 articles [3,6,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][31][32][33][34][36][37][38]40,45,[49][50][51]53,54] reported by raw data, and 13 articles [29,30,35,39,[41][42][43][44][46][47][48]52,55] reported by ORs only. Briefly, 1689 articles did not address the issue of interest and were excluded after screening the abstracts, leaving us with 171 full-text articles for further examination.…”

Interação entre ocorrência de agravos à saúde e agregação de fatores de risco em mulheres com 50 anos ou mais

“…A associação entre idade e doenças de ordem circulatória é frequentemente observada em diferentes sociedades industrializadas, e uma possível justificativa para isso baseia-se na hipótese de que ela represente construto da agregação de diferentes fatores de risco à saúde, que são incorporados ao longo da vida e se manifestam na forma destas patologias de maneira mais acentuada apenas em idades mais avançadas. No entanto, estudos de coorte longitudinal na população brasileira ainda são necessários para confirmar ou rejeitar tal hipótese (REICHERT et al, 2009).…”