Physical Activity

The COVID-19 pandemic may have reduced overall mood and physical activity among study participants and increased their levels of self-reported stress, a speaker reported.

Women with long COVID experience heart-rate irregularities after physical exertion, which could constrain their exercise tolerance and their free-living physical activity, according to a study published Experimental Physiology.

Physical activity and all-cause mortality in Parkinson’s disease may have a dose-response association, according to results of a nationwide population-based cohort study published in JAMA Neurology.

Physical activity can lead to improved quality of life and self-reported function in rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and spondyloarthritis, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

Lifetime physical activity did not appear to increase risk for ALS, whereas occupational physical activity seemed to be a risk factor for the disease, according to study results published in Neurology.

Among patients with arthritis who engaged in physical activity in the past month, about 71% reported walking as one of their two most frequent activities, followed by gardening and weightlifting, according to CDC researchers.

Mobile health intervention to improve physical activity, quality of life and metabolomic profiles in patients with HF and diabetes.

Increased physical activity before and during fertility treatment was associated with improved metabolic measures but did not impact birth outcomes among women with obesity, researchers reported.

Regular physical activity is a critical part of maintaining weight loss, and providers should explore different methods to motivate their patients to be more active, according to three speakers at the Cardiometabolic Health Congress.

Patients on maintenance hemodialysis who engaged in occasional or frequent physical activity were less likely to die from cardiovascular causes compared with those who reported being physically inactive.