Association between physical activity levels, sedentary behavior and Incidence of risk factors in patients with cardiometabolic risk

PEROVIC NR; DEL ROSSO S; CARRIZO L; BARALE A; DEFAGO MD

Buenos Aires

Congreso; IUNS 21st International Congress of Nutrition; 2017

Sociedad Argentina de Nutrición

Background and objectives: The interrelationship between physical activity (PA) levels and sedentary behavior could promote health or increase the incidence of risk factors to developcardiometabolic diseases. The aim of this study was to assess the association between auto-reported physical activity levels, sedentary behavior and the incidence of cardiometabolic risk factors. Methods: To analyze the aforementioned associations, an observational and correlational design was used. Participants (n = 117, mean ± SD for age = 61±1.43 years) were recruited from the non-invasive cardiology division at HNC of Cordoba city during the period between 2014-2016. Physical activity was recorded by means of the Spanish version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and analyzed using a spreadsheet that allow to estimate three weekly levels of PA (low, moderate and high), theenergy expenditure of PA (EEPA) and the sedentary behavior. Incidence of cardiometabolic risk factors was assessed by exploring the patient?s medical history. The selected risk factors were: body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure and serum lipid profile. Comparisons between men and women were made using independent samples T tests. All analyses were carried out using the Stata v.11.Results: Average PA levels for the total sample was 240.00 ± 116.44 METs·min/week; representing an EEPA of 1388.31 ± 600.26 Kcal/week. Further analysis showed that 25.63% of women and 18.80% of men reported to be engaged in PA of moderate intensitywhile only 5% of women and 11% of men were engaged in vigorous PA. Sedentary behavior was reported to be 360 ± 37.82 min/day. Significant associations were observed between BMI and sex (p<0.05), were women tended to have less weight than men. Avery high risk regarding WC was found in 82% of the total sample, being the risk higher in women than in man (p<0.05). Moreover, an inverse relationship was found between both SBP (r = 0.51, p<0.01) and DBP (r = 0.35, p = 0.04) and moderate intensity PA levels.Conclusions: Physical activity was related to an increased risk for metabolic diseases, being this risk higher in women compared to men.