Physical Activity

In older adults with HF, strong social support could affect kinesiophobia, or fear of movement, by influencing the severity of HF symptoms and improving disease self-care and symptom management, researchers reported.

For patients who undergo surgery for stage III colon cancer, physical activity appears to prevent — rather than merely delay — recurrence of the disease, according to a study published in British Journal of Sports Medicine.

In women with ischemic heart disease, poor fitness and metabolic syndrome with or without diabetes independently drive risks for obstructive coronary artery disease, long-term adverse events and all-cause mortality, researchers reported.

AUSTIN, Texas — Patients with chronic kidney disease who reported moderate to vigorous physical activity experienced a lower rate of mortality than patients who did not perform any physical activity, according to a poster presented here.

Adolescents who were sedentary had greater increases in left ventricular mass than those who were physically active, according to a study published in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports.

Exposure to higher amounts of fine particulate matter air pollution may counteract the protective CV effects of active commuting and farming activity in China, researchers reported.

Adults who improve from prediabetes to normoglycemia do not have a lower risk for death compared with those with persistent prediabetes, but lifestyle modification can help reduce mortality risk, according to study data.

Physical activity may offset the increased CVD mortality that is associated with unusual sleep duration, according to a study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness attenuated CVD mortality risk in older and middle-aged men with high systolic BP, researchers reported.

Among a cohort of veterans, changes in cardiorespiratory fitness over time reflected reciprocal changes in mortality risk, independent of other comorbidities, highlighting the role of physical activity in health outcomes, data show.