Wearable technology to reduce sedentary behavior and CVD risk in older adults: design of a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: Persons aged over 65 years account for over the vast majority of healthcare expenditures and deaths attributable to cardiovascular disease (CVD). Accordingly, reducing CVD risk among older adults is an important public health priority. Structured physical activity (i.e. exercise) is a well-documented method of decreasing CVD risk, but recent large-scale trials suggest that exercise alone is insufficient to reduce CVD events in high-risk populations of older adults. Thus adjuvant strategies appear necessary to reduce CVD risk. Accumulating evidence indicates that prolonged sedentary behavior (e.g. sitting) has detrimental health effects that are independent of engagement in recommended levels of moderate-intensity exercise. Yet clinical trials in this area are lacking. We hypothesize that e

SUBMITTER: Krehbiel LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5608105 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature