Physical Activity Levels in Peripheral Artery Disease Patients

Gerage, Aline Mendes, Correia, Marilia de Almeida, Oliveira, Paulo Mesquita Longano de, Palmeira, Aline Cabral, Domingues, Wagner Jorge Ribeiro, Zeratti, Antônio Eduardo, Puech-Leão, Pedro, Wolosker, Nelson, Ritti-Dias, Raphael Mendes and Cucato, Gabriel (2019) Physical Activity Levels in Peripheral Artery Disease Patients. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia. ISSN 0066-782X

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Increases in daily physical activity levels is recommended for patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD). However, despite this recommendation, little is known about the physical activity patterns of PAD patients.

OBJECTIVE: To describe the physical activity patterns of patients with symptomatic peripheral artery (PAD) disease.

METHODS: This cross-sectional study included 174 PAD patients with intermittent claudication symptoms. Patients were submitted to clinical, hemodynamic and functional evaluations. Physical activity was objectively measured by an accelerometer, and the time spent in sedentary, low-light, high-light and moderate-vigorous physical activities (MVPA) were obtained. Descriptive analysis was performed to summarize patient data and binary logistic regression was used to test the crude and adjusted associations between adherence to physical activity recommendation and sociodemographic and clinical factors. For all the statistical analyses, significance was accepted at p < 0.05.

RESULTS: Patients spent in average of 640 ± 121 min/day, 269 ± 94 min/day, 36 ± 27 min/day and 15 ± 16 min/day in sedentary, low-light, high-light and MVPA, respectively. The prevalence of patients who achieved physical activity recommendations was 3.4%. After adjustment for confounders, a significant inverse association was observed between adherence to physical activity recommendation and age (OR = 0.925; p = 0.004), while time of disease, ankle brachial index and total walking distance were not associated with this adherence criteria (p > 0.05).

CONCLUSION: The patterns of physical activity of PAD patients are characterized by a large amount of time spent in sedentary behaviors and a low engagement in MVPA. Younger patients, regardless of the clinical and functional factors, were more likely to meet the current physical activity recommendations.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Exercise, Intermittent claudication, Motor activity, Peripheral arterial disease, Waling
Subjects: B100 Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology
C600 Sports Science
Department: Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation
Depositing User: Rachel Branson
Date Deposited: 27 Feb 2020 12:33
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2021 19:35
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/42261

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