Mar 3, 2021
TUESDAY, March 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) A moderate-to-high level of past physical activity (PA) is associated with a lower risk for instant and 28-day death in relation to myocardial infarction (MI), according to a study published online Feb. 10 in the
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.
Kim Wadt Hansen, M.D., from Bispebjerg Frederiksberg University Hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues evaluated the association between past level of PA and risk for death during the acute phase of MI. The analysis included data from 10 cohorts (total 1,495,254 participants, of whom 28,140 had an incident MI). Based on weekly energy expenditure, leisure-time PA was classified as sedentary ( 7 metabolic equivalent [MET]-hours), low (7 to 16 MET-hours), moderate (16.1 to 32 MET-hours), or high ( 32 MET-hours).