31 Oct High Fitness Level Can Reduce Cardiovascular Risk of Prolonged Daily Sitting

MedicalResearch.com Interview with:

Dr. Ulrik Wisløff

Ulrik Wisløff, PhD
Professor, Head of K.G. Jebsen Center for Exercise in Medicine
Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norway

MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?

Response: Prolonged time spent sedentary on a daily basis is detrimental for general health and is associated with increased risk of developing and dying from lifestyle related diseases such as cardiovascular disease – even in those following todays advice for physical activity given by health authorities worldwide. Number of hours spent inactive tend to increase with increased age. A person’s fitness level is regarded the best predictor of future health. We tested, in older adults (aged 70-77 years old) whether meeting physical activity recommendations and/or having high age-specific fitness level attenuated the adverse effect of prolonged sedentary time on cardiovascular risk factor clustering.

Main finding was that high age-specific fitness level fully attenuated the adverse effect of prolonged sedentary time on clustering of cardiovascular risk factors, independent of meeting the physical activity recommendation in older adults.

MedicalResearch.com: What should readers take away from your report?

Response: The best is to reduce amount of daily inactive time, but our data indicate that if one has a life situation that force you to sit/be very inactive one should make sure that one exercise enough to obtain a high age relative fitness level. You can test your fitness level for free on worldfitnesslevel.org or by downloading for free the worldfitness level apps on Google Play or App Store. We also have effective and free programs to improve fitness on our homepage (ntnu.edu/cerg/regimen).

MedicalResearch.com: What recommendations do you have for future research as a result of this study?

Response: Future research should test whether our data also holds true for longevity.

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Citation:

Sedentary Time, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, and Cardiovascular Risk Factor Clustering in Older Adults–the Generation 100 Study
Sandbakk, Silvana B. et al.
Mayo Clinic Proceedings , Volume 0 , Issue 0 ,
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2016.07.020
Published online:October 18, 2016

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Last Updated on October 31, 2016 by Marie Benz MD FAAD