Exercise

Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES, FADCES, talks with Elizabeth Ward, MS, RDN, and Hillary Wright, MEd, RDN, LDN, about women’s nutrition and exercise needs as they age.

Adolescents and young adults who exercise for a longer duration per day, even if it is light physical activity, can reduce their fat mass, according to a study published in Nature Communications.

Vigorous physical activity of at least 20 minutes per week, shorter than that specified in guideline recommendations, was associated with reduced risk for cardiac arrest, according to findings published in EP Europace.

PHILADELPHIA — In people with congenital long QT syndrome, vigorous exercise did not raise risk for death or ventricular arrhythmias compared with nonvigorous exercise, according to the results of the LIVE-LQTS study.

As the first point of contact for many patients, it is important for primary care physicians to have strategies that will help treat and manage overweight and obesity, according to experts.

Caloric restriction and exercise improved domains of cognitive function in a small study of older patients with obesity and HF with preserved ejection fraction, according to a research letter published in Circulation: Heart Failure.

Results showed a home-based exercise and health education intervention decreased pain and improved function and knee muscle strength compared with no exercise for patients with patellofemoral pain.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has released a draft recommendation advising exercise for community-dwelling adults aged 65 years and older who are at risk for falls.

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have updated their atrial fibrillation guideline to highlight early rhythm control and prevention strategies.

For individuals diagnosed with cancer, guideline-concordant exercise reduced all-cause mortality by 25% compared with patients with cancer who did not exercise, study results published in Journal of Clinical Oncology showed.