Physical Activity and Selected Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Middle-Aged Male Personnel of Self-Defense Forces
| Autor: | Hidenari Sakuta, Takashi Suzuki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
Male
medicine.medical_specialty Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Type 2 diabetes Logistic regression Japan Risk Factors Internal medicine medicine Humans Exercise business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Odds ratio Middle Aged medicine.disease Obesity Confidence interval Intensity (physics) Cross-Sectional Studies Military Personnel Endocrinology Blood pressure Cardiovascular Diseases business Body mass index |
| Zdroj: | Industrial Health. 44:184-189 |
| ISSN: | 1880-8026 0019-8366 |
| DOI: | 10.2486/indhealth.44.184 |
| Popis: | We cross-sectionally analyzed the association between duration of physical activity and the presence of selected cardiovascular risk factors in the middle-aged male personnel of the Self-Defense Forces who underwent retirement check-up (n = 974). In a univariate regression analysis, duration of high intensity physical activity but not that of moderate or low intensity physical activity inversely correlated with body mass index (BMI), triglyceride, fasting plasma glucose, white blood cell (WBC) count and systolic blood pressure. No intensity categories of physical activity correlated with total cholesterol. In a multivariate logistic regression analysis adjusted for lifestyle factors and the rank, the odds ratio per 1 h/wk increase in high intensity physical activity was .88 (95% confidence interval (CI) .80-.97; P=.007) for the presence of obesity (BMI 25.0 kg/m2), .88 (95% CI .81-.95; P = .002) for hypertrigly ceridemia, .87 (95% CI .76-.99; P=.034) for type 2 diabetes, and .90 (95% CI .82-.99; P=.037) for hypertension. Neither hypercholesterolemia nor high WBC count (or = 6,900/microl) was associated with high intensity physical activity. High intensity physical activity inversely correlated with traditional cardiovascular risk factors in the middle-aged men. |
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