Factors Influencing Regular Exercise Habits of Women in Taiwan

This study employed Taiwanese women aged ≥18 years as the population and investigated their exercise habits, as well as the behavioral factors affecting such habits. In research on exercise, the relationship between exercise and sex is a crucial topic, and this relationship affects exercise promotion. Women’s exercise habits are influenced by traditional gender ideology, and women have long been excluded and treated unfairly in the realm of exercise. The study data were collected from a representative sample of 1113 Taiwanese women who participated in the 2011 Taiwan Social Change Survey (sixth phase, second wave). After removing missing values, the data of 1028 participants (46.39 ± 16.90 years) were analyzed. The results indicated that nearly half of the women had an exercise habit (48.3%). Those who were older, lived in a city (i.e., an area with a high level of urbanization), had a full-time job, had more favorable self-reported physical condition, and had enough income to meet their daily needs, were more likely to have an exercise habit.

Annual dialysis data report of the 2018 JSDT Renal Data Registry: dementia, performance status, and exercise habits

According to the annual survey of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy Renal Data Registry (JRDR) conducted at the end of 2018, there were a total of 339,841 patients receiving dialysis (hereinafter, dialysis patients) in Japan. The survey included questions regarding the presence/absence of dementia, the performance status (PS), and the exercise habits of individual patients. The survey revealed that 10.8% of all dialysis patients had dementia (1.8% in the age group of less than 65 years, 6.8% in the age group of 65–74 years, and 22.7% in the age group of 75 years or older). These prevalences of dementia were approximately equal to those estimated from the survey conducted in 2010. Regarding PS, the percentage of patients with lower activity levels tended to be relatively high among patients who were less than 15 years old and those who were 60 years old or older. Concerning the exercise habits of dialysis patients, the percentage of patients who were classified as “not at all or hardly” in response to the question about exercise habit was the highest (60–80%) of all the exercise habit classifications in each of the age groups analyzed.

FTO obesity variant-exercise interaction on changes in body weight and BMI: The Taiwan Biobank study

Context Gene-exercise interaction on cross-sectional BMI has been extensively studied and is well established. However, gene-exercise interaction on changes in body weight/BMI remains controversial. Objective To examine the interaction between the FTO obesity variant and regular exercise on changes in body weight/BMI. Participants Taiwan Biobank participants aged 30 to 70 years (N = 20,906) were examined at both baseline and follow-up visit (mean follow-up duration: 3.7 years). Main outcome measures The interaction between the FTO obesity variant rs1421085 and regular exercise habit (no exercise, ≤20METs/week exercise, >20METs/week exercise) on changes in body weight/BMI. Results Individuals with the risk allele of rs1421085 gained more weight and increased BMI than those without the risk allele if they do not exercise. In contrast, individuals with the risk allele gained less weight and BMI if they exercise regularly, indicating an interaction between rs1421085 and regular exercise habit (P = 0.030 for Δbody weight and P = 0.034 for ΔBMI). The effect of exercise on maintaining body weight was larger in those with the risk allele of rs1421085. When we focused on individuals without regular exercise at baseline, individuals with the risk allele again tended to lose more weight compared to those with a non-risk allele if they had acquired an exercise habit by the follow-up visit. Conclusions The beneficial effect of exercise is greater in individuals genetically prone to obesity due to the interaction between the FTO obesity variant rs1421085 and regular exercise on changes in body weight and BMI.

Risk Factors That Associated With Hypertension In Population Of Tlatah Village, Purwosari, Bojonegoro

Background: Hypertension or also known as high blood pressure is one of the major health problems in society especially in developing countries like Indonesia. As happened in Tlatah Village, Purwosari, Bojonegoro, hypertension case reached 3rd highest cases that reported in reports of village health service visits in 2019 with so many factors cause hypertension where these factors are divided into modified factor and cannot be changed factor. Purpose: This aimed of this study was to determine the risk factors that associated with the incidence of hypertension in Tlatah Village, Purwosari District, Bojonegoro Regency. Methode: This type of research was a descriptive analytic analysis with a cross-sectional study design. The population in this study was the entire population of 557 people and the sample was taken using simple random sampling technique of 83 people. Result: The results of the analysis showed that the variable which was statistically significant and had a significant relationship was the variable of exercise habits with p-value <0.05 (p = 0.000; OR = 0.528 CI = 0.767-0.239). Conclusin: The conclusion of this study was that exercise habit was a risk factor associated with hypertension incidence in Tlatah Village, Purwosari, Bojonegoro.Keywords : exercise habit, hypertension, hypertension factor

Risk factors of preoperative frailty in elderly inpatients with gastrointestinal cancer

Background Frailty is emerging as an important determinant for health, while researches in the field of frailty start at a later stage in China and mainly focuses on community elderly dwellers. Little is known about frailty in cancer patients in China, nor the risk factors of frailty. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of frailty and its risk factors in elderly inpatients with gastrointestinal cancer. Methods This cross-sectional study was performed at a tertiary hospital in China from Mar. 2020 to Nov. 2020. The study enrolled 265 inpatients aged 60 and older with gastrointestinal cancer who successfully underwent surgery. The demographic and clinical characteristics, biochemical laboratory parameters, and anthropometric data were collected from all patients. The Groningen Frailty Indicator was applied to assess patients’ frailty status. Multivariate logistic regression model analysis was carried out to identify risk factors of frailty and estimate their 95% confidence intervals. Results The prevalence of frailty in elderly inpatients with gastrointestinal cancer was 43.8%. A multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that older age (OR = 1.065, 95% CI: 1.001–1.132, P = 0.045), low handgrip strength (OR = 4.346, 95% CI: 1.739–10.863, P = 0.002), no regular exercise habit (OR = 3.228, 95% CI: 1.230–8.469, P = 0.017), and low MNA-SF score (OR = 11.090, 95% CI: 5.119–24.024, P < 0.001) were risk factors of frailty. Conclusions This study suggested that the prevalence of frailty was high among elderly inpatients with gastrointestinal cancer. Older age, low handgrip strength, no regular exercise habit, and low MNA-SF score were risk factors of frailty.

Development and Effects of Combined Exercise and an Exercise Habit Formation Program for Undergraduate Nursing Students

Purpose: This study was conducted to develop and test the effects of a combined exercise and exercise habit formation program for undergraduate nursing students.Methods: A non-equivalent control group pre-post test design was used. The participants were 44 students (experimental group: 23, control group: 21) who had not done regular exercise for over 3 months before this study. The program was developed based on theory of planned behavior and the habit formation model. The program consisted of 24 sessions for 8 weeks and included combined exercise (aerobic exercise 30 minutes, resistance exercise 20 minutes, and flexibility exercise 10 minutes), exercise intention promotion strategy and exercise habit formation strategy (30 minutes, weekly). Data collection was done before, and immediately after the program: September 4 to October 29. Data were analyzed using t-test, paired t-test, <i>x</i>² test, Mann-Whitney U test, and Wilcoxon signed rank-sum test with SPSS/ WIN 21.0 program.Results: Exercise intention, exercise habit strength, exercise behavior, and physical fitness (cardiopulmonary endurance, muscle strength, and muscle endurance) were significantly better and stress and fatigue were significantly lower in the experimental group compared to the control group.Conclusion: The study findings indicate that the combined exercise and exercise habit formation program for undergraduate nursing students was effective and can be recommended as an intervention for improving healthy lifestyle of undergraduate nursing students.

The Practical Impacts of Exercise-Intervention on COVID-19 Pandemic

PURPOSE: Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) was first reported in China at the end of 2019. COVID-19 infected people increased and spreads COVID-19 rapidly across the globe. Finally, this outbreak turn into a pandemic and yields national crisis and finally to endemic. Most individual are exposed to stressful situation because of unknown duration of COVID-19. Most of all, smoking, obesity, metabolic syndromes, lowered immunity such as decreased natural killer (NK) cell, T cell activity were significantly correlated with the COVID19 incidence. However, all this variables were concerned with exercise habit and exercise-intervention, therefore, the present study aimed to assess the relationship between COVID-19 incidence and physical activity status.METHODS: PubMed database was searched from December 2019 to August 2020 using predefined search terms “COVID-19”, “exercise”, and “immunity”.Based on reference search, more than 65 articles were identified whereas 50 papers (36 references) met the inclusion criteria and were well connected with COVID-19 and physical exercise with immunity.We analyzed the connections between exercise and COVID-19 with many variables, and dealtabout COVID-19 prevention and exercise-intervention programs in the main text.RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS: Smoking, obesity, metabolic syndromes, reduced respiratory muscle mass, lowered immunity such as decreased natural killer cell and T cell activity were significantly correlated with the COVID-19 infection.However, all this variables were also concerned with exercise habit and exercise-intervention.Regular physical activity have shown to be an effective prescription for obesity, many metabolic syndromes and good immunity. However, physical inactivity and chronic metabolic syndromes were associated with reduced immunity such as reduced NK cell activity, uncontrolled T cell immunity, decreased respiratory immunity and even URTIs (upper respiratory track infection) for elite athletes. Multicomponent exercise program is considered especially for the elderly people, 5 days per week, 40-60% HRR (heart rate reserve) intensity, and 150-300 minutes aerobic and resistance training (200-400 minutes/week under the quarantine period) were recommended. Moreover, all form of psychological support also to increase immunity against COVID-19.More mechanism studies are urgently needed to determine which mode and which duration exercises are best most suited, and effective for prevention and treatment of COVID-19.