Physical activity, fitness, and cardiac autonomic function among adults born postterm.

ABSTRACT: Recent studies have suggested that adverse outcomes of postterm birth (≥42 completed weeks of gestation), including increased cardiometabolic risk factors, impaired glucose metabolism, and obesity, may extend into adulthood. We studied interconnected determinants of cardiovascular health, including physical activity (PA; based on accelerometry for 2 weeks), muscular strength (measured by handgrip strength), cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF; measured by 4-min step test), and cardiac autonomic function (heart rate [HR] recovery, HR variability, and baroreflex sensitivity) among 46-year-old adults from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort born postterm (n = 805) and at term (n = 2645). Adults born postterm undertook vigorous PA 2.0 min day-1 (95% CI, 0.4-3.7) less than term-born adults when adjust

SUBMITTER: Oksanen P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11879586 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature