减少身体灵活性与中年男性和女性的生存率低下有关:一项前性队列研究
Claudio Gil S Araújo1, Christina G de Souza E Silva1, Setor K Kunutsor2,3
1Exercise Medicine Clinic - CLINIMEX, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports
|August 21, 2024
概括
更高的身体灵活性与中年成人较低的死亡风险有关. 这项研究发现,通过Flexindex测量,提高灵活性与男性和女性的生存率增加有关.
科学领域:
- 运动生理学 运动生理学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 老年学是一门学科.
背景情况:
- 灵活性是身体健康的关键组成部分,对所有年龄组都至关重要.
- 关于身体灵活性与生存率之间的联系的研究有限.
- 这项研究探讨了灵活性与死亡风险之间的性别特异关系.
研究的目的:
- 评估身体灵活性与中年个体全因死亡率之间的关联.
- 为了确定这种关联是否在男性和女性之间有所不同.
- 评估灵活性与非COVID-19死亡率之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 一项前性队列研究,涉及3139名中年成人 (46-65岁).
- 一个新的身体灵活性评分,Flexindex (0-80),是从20个关节运动计算出来的.
- 进行了卡普兰-梅尔生存分析和危险比率 (HR) 估计.
主要成果:
- 在平均12.9年的随访期间,共有302名参与者 (9.6%) 死亡.
- 女性的flexindex得分明显高于男性 (41.1比30.5).
- 更高的灵活性 (上与下分布) 与两性死亡风险相反相关 (HRs:男性1.87,调整后女性4.78).
结论:
- 通过Flexindex评估的身体灵活性与中年男性和女性的死亡风险有很强的反向关联.
- 这些发现强调了灵活性是长寿的重要因素.
- 需要进一步的研究来探索灵活性训练是否可以提高生存结果.
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