Deans' stroke musings: Sedentary behavior and cardiovascular disease in older women: The OPACH Study

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Sedentary behavior and cardiovascular disease in older women: The OPACH Study

Because they cherry picked participants stroke survivors have no clue how this applies to them. But if you want to extrapolate on your own, this means your doctor has to get you recovered enough to stay active.

Sedentary behavior and cardiovascular disease in older women: The OPACH Study

Circulation — Bellettiere J, et al. | February 21, 2019

In this study, researchers investigated whether patterns of sedentary time are linked to a higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among 5,683 women (aged 63-97 years) from the Objective Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health (OPACH) Trial. Study participants were followed up for up to 4.9 years for CVD events, had no history of myocardial infarction or stroke, and wore accelerometers for 4-7 days for activity monitoring. They estimated hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% CIs for CVD by using Cox regression models adjusted for covariates and for potential mediators. A total of 545 CVD events were recorded over 19,350 person-years. After adjusting for covariates, women with the highest vs the lowest quartile of sedentary time were found to have a greater risk for CVD. In addition, women who had both high sedentary time and long mean bout durations had significantly higher CVD risk vs women with low sedentary time and shorter mean bout durations.