Deans' stroke musings: Sitting–rising test scores predict natural and cardiovascular causes of deaths in middle-aged and older men and women

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.

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Sitting–rising test scores predict natural and cardiovascular causes of deaths in middle-aged and older men and women

In the past 19 years my score would always be 1.5 and it will never get better during my next 31 years. It has absolutely nothing to do with my cardiovascular risk!

Sitting–rising test scores predict natural and cardiovascular causes of deaths in middle-aged and older men and women

Abstract

Aims

In a previous study, the ability to sit and rise from the floor was associated with all-cause mortality. Now, we aim to assess whether sitting–rising test (SRT) scores also predict premature natural and cardiovascular (CV) deaths. This is a prospective cohort design study.

Methods and results

A total of 4282 adults aged 46–75 years (68% men) performed sitting and rising from the floor, which was scored from 0 to 5, with one point being subtracted from 5 for each support used (hand/knee) and 0.5 for an unsteadiness execution. The final SRT score was obtained by adding sitting and rising scores and stratified in five groups for analysis: 0–4, 4.5–7.5, 8, 8.5–9.5, and 10. During a median follow-up of 12.3 (interquartile range = 7.6–18.0) years, there were 665 deaths (15.5%). There was a continuous trend for higher mortality with low SRT scores (P < 0.001), with death rates of 3.7, 7.0, 11.1, 20.4, and 42.1%, respectively, for Groups 5 to 1 of SRT scores. The Cox multivariate-adjusted (age, sex, body mass index, and clinical variables) hazard ratios of 3.84 [95% confidence interval (CI) 2.25–6.97] and 6.05 (95% CI 2.29–20.94) (P < 0.001) were observed, respectively, for natural and CV mortality, when comparing the highest and lowest SRT score groups.

Conclusion

Non-aerobic physical fitness, as assessed by SRT, was a significant predictor of natural and CV mortality in 46–75-year-old participants. Application of the SRT, a simple assessment tool that is influenced by muscular strength/power, flexibility, balance, and body composition, could add relevant clinical and prognostic information to routine examinations of healthy and unhealthy individuals.