Vigorous physical activity predicts higher heart rate variability among younger adults

Optimism predicts sustained vigorous physical activity in postmenopausal women☆

Optimism and cynical hostility are associated with health behaviors and health outcomes, including morbidity and mortality. This analysis assesses their association with longitudinal vigorous physical activity (PA) in postmenopausal women of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). Subjects include 73,485 women nationwide without history of cancer or cardiovascular disease (CVD), and no missing bas...

Effects of moderate and vigorous physical activity on heart rate variability in a British study of civil servants.

Physical inactivity and low resting heart rate variability (HRV) are associated with increased coronary heart disease incidence. In the Whitehall II study of civil servants aged 45-68 years (London, United Kingdom, 1997-1999), the strength of the association of moderate and vigorous activity with higher HRV was examined. Five-minute recordings of heart rate and HRV measures were obtained from 3...

Physical Activity and Heart Rate Variability in Older Adults : The Cardiovascular Health Study Running title :

Physical Activity and Heart Rate Variability in Older Adults : The Cardiovascular Health Study

Dept of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA; Research Centre in Physical Activity, Health and Leisure, Faculty of Sport, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; Benjamin Leon Center for Geriatric Research and Education and Dept of Medicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL; Dept of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seatt...

Effects of high occupational physical activity, aging, and exercise on heart rate variability among male workers

OBJECTIVES Effects of aging and leisure time physical activity (LPA) might influence the effect of occupational physical activity (OPA) on risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study was conducted to determine whether OPA affects CVD after controlling the effects of LPA and other risk factors for CVD such as job stress. METHODS Participants were 131 male Korean manual workers. Tests for...