Physical Activity

Any amount of daily steps above 2,200 offers health benefits, but the step count associated with the lowest mortality and incident CVD risk was between 9,000 to 10,500 a day, research showed.

Deteriorating quality of life for women with breast cancer was associated with many common modifiable psychosocial and lifestyle-related factors, according to an analysis published in JAMA Network Open.

Adhering to a higher number of healthy lifestyle behaviors, such as not smoking, staying physically active and getting optimal sleep, was significantly associated with lower incidence of irritable bowel syndrome, according to data in Gut.

Maintaining high levels of physical activity and weight loss were associated with reduced risks for several cardiovascular events, a study published in JAMA Network Open showed.

Adolescents who have an increase in fat mass are more likely to have worse insulin resistance as young adults, according to study findings published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Increased daily physical activity was associated with lower risk for overall de novo heart failure and HF with preserved ejection fraction among older women, according to study findings published in JAMA Cardiology.

Adults who exercise for at least 150 minutes per week in one to two sessions have similar body composition measures as adults who exercised a combined 150 minutes across three or more sessions, according to study data published in Obesity.

Youth who accumulated a certain volume of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in the first 2 weeks following a concussion had reduced odds for persisting symptoms, researchers found.

Compared with men, women are less likely to die of any cause or from CV-specific causes when performing similar amounts of weekly leisure-time physical activity, suggesting there are sex-specific benefits to exercise, researchers reported.

Better lighting was associated with improvements in at-home physical activity levels among older adults with visual impairment, according to a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology.