Exercise Flashcards
Identify the exercise benefits with strongest evidence.
- Lower risk of early death
- Lower risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, adverse blood lipid profile
- Lower risk of type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome
- Lower risk of cancer: colon and breast
- Prevention of weight gain
- Weight loss, particularly when combined with reduced calorie intake
- Improved cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness
- Prevention of falls
- Reduced depression
- Better cognitive function (for older adults)
Identify the exercise benefits with moderate-strong evidence.
- Better functional health (for older adults)
- Reduced abdominal obesity
Identify the exercise benefits with moderate evidence.
- Lower risk of hip fracture
- Lower risk of lung cancer
- Lower risk of endometrial cancer
- Weight maintenance after weight loss
- Increased bone density
- Improved sleep quality
What impact does exercise have on mortality?
- Regular exercise reduces risk of all-cause mortality for most individuals (all sexes & age populations)
- Beneficial effects are dose-dependent
What is the significance of 100 minutes of exercise and mortality?
-Duration above 100 minutes/day for moderate-intensity physical activity in healthy individuals do not appear to be associated with additional reductions in mortality rates.
Impact of exercise on cardiovascular disease.
Strong inverse relationship between habitual exercise and the risk of coronary disease, cardiac events, and cardiovascular death for both primary and secondary prevention
Exercise impact on lipoproteins.
induces beneficial effects on lipoproteins (e.g., decrease in very low-density lipoprotein, increase in high density lipoprotein), body composition, and aerobic capacity, as well as improves hemostatic factors associated with thrombosis.
Impact on markers of inflammation.
Regular physical activity is associated with decreased levels of markers of inflammation (CRP and IL6).
Long-term aerobic exercise impacts
- beneficial on systemic BP
- reduce risk of stroke
Impact on diabetes/prediabetes.
- may improve glycemic control, insulin sensitivity, and may prevent the development of type 2 diabetes in high-risk groups.
- exercise is one of the lifestyle changes that has been shown to reduce the risk of diabetes in people with high risk (multiple risk factors)
Impact on cancer prevention and treatment.
- modest protection against breast, intestinal, prostate, endometrial, colorectal, and pancreatic cancer
- observational studies have reported a link between survival and exercise, with most of the data coming from survivors with breast, colorectal, or prostate cancers
Impact on obesity.
Compared to a weight loss diet alone, diet coupled with either exercise or exercise and resistance training is associated with a greater reduction in body fat compared to diet alone
Impact on osteoporosis
- weight-bearing exercise is associated with an increase in bone mineral density in men and women
- among patients with osteoporosis, exercise is associated with a decreased risk of hip fractures
Impact on smoking cessation
- vigorous exercise modestly facilitates short- and long-term smoking cessation in women when combined with a cognitive-behavioral smoking cessation program
- vigorous exercise also delays weight gain following smoking cessation
Impact on gallstones
Associated with a decreased risk of symptomatic cholelithiasis
Impact on function and cognition
- may reduce the risk of dementia and cognitive decline in older patients
- also associated with improved cognitive function in young adults
Impact on psychological
- regular exercise reduces stress, anxiety, and depression
- recommended in the treatment of depression.
What are the risks associated with exercise?
- musculoskeletal injury
- arrhythmia
- sudden cardiac death (SCD)
- myocardial infarction (MI)
- rhabdomyolysis
- bronchoconstriction
- hyper/hypothermia
- dehydration
- amenorrhea
- hyponatremia