{"id":5685,"date":"2012-06-07T14:34:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T21:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/?p=5685"},"modified":"2013-06-25T08:30:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T15:30:27","slug":"minimum-amount-of-physical-activity-for-reduced-mortality-and-extended-life-expectancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/07\/minimum-amount-of-physical-activity-for-reduced-mortality-and-extended-life-expectancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum amount of physical activity for reduced mortality and extended life expectancy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Also see:
\nPotential Adverse Cardiovascular Effects from Excessive Endurance Exercise<\/a><\/p>\n

Lancet. 2011 Oct 1;378(9798):1244-53. Epub 2011 Aug 16.
\nMinimum amount of physical activity for reduced mortality and extended life expectancy: a prospective cohort study.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Wen CP, Wai JP, Tsai MK, Yang YC, Cheng TY, Lee MC, Chan HT, Tsao CK, Tsai SP, Wu X.
\nBACKGROUND:
\nThe health benefits of leisure-time physical activity are well known, but whether less exercise than the recommended 150 min a week can have life expectancy benefits is unclear. We assessed the health benefits of a range of volumes of physical activity in a Taiwanese population.<\/strong>
\nMETHODS:
\nIn this prospective cohort study, 416,175 individuals (199,265 men and 216,910 women) participated in a standard medical screening programme in Taiwan between 1996 and 2008, with an average follow-up of 8\u00b705 years (SD 4\u00b721). On the basis of the amount of weekly exercise indicated in a self-administered questionnaire, participants were placed into one of five categories of exercise volumes: inactive, or low, medium, high, or very high activity. We calculated hazard ratios (HR) for mortality risks for every group compared with the inactive group, and calculated life expectancy for every group.
\nFINDINGS:
\nCompared with individuals in the inactive group, those in the low-volume activity group, who exercised for an average of 92 min per week (95% CI 71-112) or 15 min a day (SD 1\u00b78), had a 14% reduced risk of all-cause mortality (0\u00b786, 0\u00b781-0\u00b791), and had a 3 year longer life expectancy. Every additional 15 min of daily exercise beyond the minimum amount of 15 min a day further reduced all-cause mortality by 4% (95% CI 2\u00b75-7\u00b70) and all-cancer mortality by 1% (0\u00b73-4\u00b75). These benefits were applicable to all age groups and both sexes, and to those with cardiovascular disease risks. Individuals who were inactive had a 17% (HR 1\u00b717, 95% CI 1\u00b710-1\u00b724) increased risk of mortality compared with individuals in the low-volume group.<\/strong>
\nINTERPRETATION:
\n15 min a day or 90 min a week of moderate-intensity exercise might be of benefit, even for individuals at risk of cardiovascular disease.<\/strong>
\nFUNDING:
\nTaiwan Department of Health Clinical Trial and Research Center of Excellence and National Health Research Institutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Also see: Potential Adverse Cardiovascular Effects from Excessive Endurance Exercise Lancet. 2011 Oct 1;378(9798):1244-53. Epub 2011 Aug 16. Minimum amount of physical activity for reduced mortality and extended life expectancy: a prospective cohort study. Wen CP, Wai JP, Tsai MK, Yang YC, Cheng TY, Lee MC, Chan HT, Tsao CK, Tsai SP, Wu X. BACKGROUND: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[233,1456,751,1449],"class_list":["post-5685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-exercise","tag-life-expectancy","tag-longevity","tag-morality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5709,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions\/5709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}