Posted on 08/07/2025 9:30:28 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A team of investigators report that adults who later develop cardiovascular disease show declining physical activity levels beginning roughly 12 years before their event, with the gap versus their healthy peers persisting long afterward.
Scientists analyzed data from 3,068 participants in CARDIA, a prospective study initiated in 1985–1986 with up to 10 physical activity assessments through 2020–2022.
Participants were followed in four US cities with a median follow-up of 34.0 years.
Physical activity decreased steadily from young adulthood into middle age, then stabilized in later years across the full cohort. Black men had a more sustained decline, while Black women consistently reported the lowest activity throughout adulthood.
White men showed initial decline followed by stabilization and slight recovery, while white women began with lower activity than men but showed notable recovery beginning in midlife.
Analysis of 236 incident cardiovascular disease cases matched 1:1 to control participants revealed striking patterns around heart events. Activity levels in case participants began declining approximately 12 years before cardiovascular disease diagnosis, with accelerated declines within two years of the event.
After diagnosis, all three groups remained at similarly low physical‑activity levels (<300 exercise units), and the post‑event trajectory differences between disease types were not statistically significant (P = 0.90).
Adjusting for pre-cardiovascular disease activity levels, cases were more likely than controls to exhibit low activity post-cardiovascular disease (odds ratio, 1.78; 95% CI, 1.26–2.50).
Black women faced the highest risk of low post-cardiovascular disease activity (odds ratio, 4.52; 95% CI, 2.29–8.89), while white men showed no significant increased risk (odds ratio, 0.92).
Researchers conclude that physical activity declines from early adulthood to midlife then stabilizes, with notable demographic differences. Cases experienced steep declines before cardiovascular disease events, supporting a link between physical activity and disease outcomes.
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Is the cardiovascular harm caused by lack of exercise, or is the lack of energy to exercise caused by developing cardiovascular problems?
I got a stent 12 years after retiring...
Daily brisk walk with 1lb wrist weights for 23-25 minutes is my daily exercise. No health issues at age 85. Scary part is the age number, when I see younger people having physical & mental decline. For example Joe Biden, 3 years younger than me.
Yeah yeah and then there are the football players who go into cardiac arrest on the field, or the guys who run 5 miles a day who go into cardiac arrest and croak at dinner....
i work out every day- 1 1/2 to 2 hours a day...hard training; running & swimming 3 days a week, running & lifting 3 days a week, 5 mile run on Sunday....(i also trained for the Olympic Decathlon for 10 years almost 50 years ago)
I probably push it to much (will be 62YO next month) and there are mornings i am drained and feel little energy to get out there but push through it...
They say the time of day you feel tired, which means your metabolism is slow, is the best time to train. I am not a morning person and always lifted, etc in the afternoon but now workout exclusively in the AM.
Those are few and far between and more times than not hereditary conditions.
I run every day and workout hard and i never got the covid vax. We were going on a cruise back in 20222 which required the vax. I went for an Igg test which tested to see if you had the covid anti-bodies. My numbers were off the charts and the physician at the clinic said, “your vax is working perfectly!!” When i told her i had not taken the vax she said “something is wrong- come in and we’ll give you the test again.”
I told her about my workout routine, vitamins i was taking, etc. She said, “that explains it- you’re one of the handful of people i’ve come across who have not taken the vax but you’re producing full antibodies.”
I told her about our cruise and the vax requirement and said, “I’m not concerned about dying of covid. I’m more concerned about taking the vax, going out on a 7 mile run and dropping dead of a heart attack midway through!!”
She said, “Mr GLA- i’m not your doctor, but there’s no reason for you to take this vaccine”
I got a fake vax card and went on the cruise....lots of people on that cruise left with covid- not me!!!
We missed a couple trips we were supposed to do because we refused to take the clot shot. But we are alive.
Bkmk
I’m doomed!.......................Already had a quad by-pass in 2020.............
Very interesting. You are one determined man! Good for you. I’m not a morning person either, so I guess that would be a prime time for me to exercise.
Determined- to stay skinny!!!
I presume you eat right, too, or are you working off the potato chip calories. LOL!
take 10-15 grams of creatine a day.
creatine promotes the production of ATP—the body’s energy/electricity/gasoline/fuel
You’ll have the energy.
the latter!!! LOL- yeh i eat a lot of fruit and yogurt and the like- but i also eat a lot of cookies, ice cream, occasionally potato chips (when they are in the house- i don’t buy them) but i never drink soda!!!!
I have season tickets for the NY Jets and go just to tailgate...instead of bringing chips i started bringing olives to eat while the ribs and hot dogs were cooking...i then said, “the heck with it- bring the potato chips and run a little extra on Monday AM!”
I learn a lot of things on Free Republic. But if I took every vitamin and mineral mentioned on various posts, I wouldn’t have room in my stomach for actual food. But I sure could use some extra energy. I will look into it. Thanks.
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