Burden of metabolic syndrome on primary healthcare costs among older adults: A cross-sectional study.

Background: The impact of metabolic syndrome (MetS) on healthcare costs remains unclear in the literature.

Objectives: To determine the impact of MetS on primary healthcare costs of adults, as well as to identify the impact of physical activity and other covariates on this phenomenon.

Design And Setting: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the city of Presidente Prudente, State of São Paulo/Brazil, in 2016.

Combined association of insufficient physical activity and sleep problems with healthcare costs: a longitudinal study.

Background: The magnitude of economic losses attributed to sleep problems and insufficient physical activity (PA) remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the association between insufficient PA, sleep problems, and direct healthcare costs.

Objective: To investigate the association between insufficient physical activity (PA), sleep problems, and direct healthcare costs among adults.

Impact of cycling and walking on adiposity and healthcare costs among adults: longitudinal study.

Leisure-time physical activity seems relevant to prevent the development of chronic diseases and obesity. However, not much is known about the economic burden of these healthy behaviors, mainly in longitudinal designs. This study aimed to analyze the impact of walking and cycling on leisure-time on adiposity and healthcare costs among adults.

Sedentary behavior, abdominal obesity and healthcare costs in Brazilian adults with cardiovascular diseases: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Research on the economic burden of sedentary behavior and abdominal obesity on health expenses associated with cardiovascular diseases is scarce.

Objective: The objective of this study was to verify whether sedentary behavior, isolated and combined with abdominal obesity, influences the medication expenditure among adults with cardiovascular diseases.

Design And Setting: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the city of President Prudente, State of São Paulo, Brazil in 2018.

Habitual physical activity minimizes healthcare costs resulting from comorbidities among adults with cardiovascular diseases.

Background: Habitual physical activity (HPA) can be used as a non-pharmacological strategy to prevent and control chronic diseases, as well as playing a role in minimizing healthcare costs.

Objective: To verify the impact of HPA on healthcare costs at different levels of care, over 24 months, in an adult population with cardiovascular diseases (CVD), including individuals with or without comorbidities.

Methods: Two-hundred and seventy-eight adults with CVD, aged between 30 and 65 years, participated in the study.

Interrelationship between arterial hypertension, health service costs, therapeutic treatment and physical activity.

Background: Arterial hypertension is a high prevalence disease that increase healthcare costs and affects physical activity level. This study aimed to analyse the interrelationship between arterial hypertension, health service costs, therapeutic treatment, and physical activity in patients with cardiovascular diseases.

Method: Cross-sectional study that evaluated 306 patients from a hospital in Presidente Prudente-Brazil.

The impact of early sports participation on body fatness in adulthood is not mediated by current physical activity.

Objective: The aim was to analyze the relationship between early sports participation (ESP) and body fatness (BF) in adults, as well as to identify whether this possible relationship is directly influenced by the current physical activity (PA) level.

Methods: This cross-sectional study combined baseline data of two cohort. The BF estimated by DXA.

Comorbidities do not mitigate the effect of habitual physical activity on the reduction of healthcare costs among adults with cardiovascular diseases: A mediation analysis.

Background: Habitual Physical activity (HPA) is a non-pharmacological strategy to prevent and control chronic diseases, and it plays an important role in minimizing healthcare costs.

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between HPA and healthcare costs from the perspective of the Brazilian National Healthcare System, and to establish the mediating role of comorbidities in this relationship among patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVD).

Design And Setting: This longitudinal study was conducted in a medium-sized Brazilian city and included 278 participants assisted by the Brazilian National Healthcare System.

Productivity Loss, Healthcare Costs, and Habitual Physical Activity Among Adults With Cardiovascular Diseases.

Objectives: The aims of the study are to quantify the relationship between productivity loss and healthcare costs among adults with cardiovascular diseases and also to verify whether habitual physical activity (HPA) modulates this relationship.

Methods: Information was obtained about healthcare costs, productivity loss, and HPA.

Results: The sample consisted of 278 adults.

Low Occurrence of Musculoskeletal Symptoms in Swimming? Musculoskeletal Symptoms and Sports Participation in Adolescents: Cross Sectional Study (ABCD-Growth Study).

The purpose of this paper was to identify the association between the occurrence of musculoskeletal symptoms (MS) and sports participation in adolescents. The sample included 193 adolescents (11 to 17 years of age; 131 boys and 62 girls). For this cross-sectional study, participants were categorized into four groups: "no-sports", "repetitive non-impact sports", "high-impact sports", and "odd-impact sports".

Relationship between vigorous physical activity and health care costs among adolescents: ABCD Growth Study.

Background: The relationship between physical activity and health care costs among adolescents is not yet clear in the literature.

Objective: To analyze the relationship between physical activity and annual health care costs among adolescents.

Methods: The present sample was composed of 85 adolescents of both sexes with ages ranging from 11 to 18 years (mean age 15.

The Association Between Leisure-time Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Low Back Pain: A Cross-sectional Analysis in Primary Care Settings.

Study Design: Observational cross-sectional.

Objective: To investigate the association between leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and low back pain (LBP) in adults from primary care settings, and to explore how sedentary behavior influences this association.

Summary Of Background Data: LTPA is inversely associated with LBP.

Twelve year trajectories of physical activity and health costs in mid-age Australian women.

Background: Few studies have examined relationships between physical activity (PA) during mid-age and health costs in women. The aim of this study was to investigate associations between PA levels and trajectories over 12 years with medical and pharmaceutical costs in mid-age Australian women.

Methods: Data from 6953 participants in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (born in 1946-1951) were analysed in 2019.

Body size dissatisfaction associated with dietary pattern, overweight, and physical activity in adolescents: A cross-sectional study.

This study analyzed the association of body size dissatisfaction with body mass index, dietary pattern, and physical activity in adolescents. A sample of 1074 participants between 10 and 17 years of age was recruited. Body size dissatisfaction was assessed with the silhouettes' scale.

Chronic low back pain and physical activity among patients within the Brazilian National Health System: a cross-sectional study.

Background: This study was based on filling a gap in our knowledge regarding the issue of what the protective effect of physical exercise on patients within the Brazilian National Health System could be, in relation to low back pain.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of chronic low back pain (CLBP) and to analyze the protective effect of physical exercise among patients over 50 years old attended at primary healthcare units (PHUs).

Design And Setting: Analytical cross-sectional study at Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) that was conducted in two PHUs (Parque Cedral and Vila Real), located in different regions of the city of Presidente Prudente, Brazil.

Impact of physical activity during weekdays and weekends on fat mass among adults: 12-month cohort study.

Background: Physical activity (PA) practices seem to differ between weekdays and weekends and these pattern changes can affect body fat differently. However, previous studies did not assess the mediation effect of weekday and weekend PA on maintenance of body fat using sophisticated statistical models.

Objective: To analyze the mediation effect of PA during weekdays and weekends on maintenance of fat mass over a 12-month follow-up.

Participation in Non-professional Sports and Cardiovascular Outcomes Among Adolescents: ABCD Growth Study.

Objectives: Sports are an important way to improve health during adolescence. However, it is still unclear whether the association between sports, blood pressure, and metabolic profile could be affected by sex, biological maturation, and trunk fatness. The aim of this study was to analyze the association between sports participation and the cluster of cardiovascular markers among adolescents of both sexes.

Body size dissatisfaction associated with dietary pattern, overweight, and physical activity in adolescents - a cross-sectional study.

This study analyzed the association of body size dissatisfaction with body mass index, dietary pattern, and physical activity in adolescents. A sample of 1,074 participants between 10-17years was recruited. Body size dissatisfaction was assessed by silhouettes scale.

Sports Participation and Health Care Costs in Older Adults Aged 50 Years or Older.

The objective of the study was to analyze the relationship between sports participation and health care costs in older adults. The sample was composed of 556 participants (145 men and 411 women) who were followed from 2010 to 2014. The engagement in sports considered three different components (intensity, volume, and previous time).

Obesity Increases Costs With Productivity Loss Due to Disability Retirements, Independent of Physical Activity: A Cohort Study.

Objective: Investigate whether obesity is responsible for costs due to productivity loss (PL) in adults, during 30 months of follow-up.

Methods: Absenteeism and disability retirement were considered as PL. For classification of obesity, body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) values were considered.

Relationship between Health Costs and Inflammatory Profile in Public Health.

Introduction: The association between obesity and physical activity level is well established in the literature, as well as its consequences that lead to chronic noncommunicable diseases. In addition, it is also possible to obtain the immunometabolic mechanism that explains the pathway of associations between obesity, chronic noncommunicable diseases and the level of physical activity. It also seems clear that treating illnesses has a financial impact on healthcare systems around the world, so it seems important to assess the financial impact on the healthcare system of individuals with immunometabolic dysfunction.

Sleep pattern, obesity and healthcare expenditures in Brazilian adults.

The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between sleep pattern and healthcare expenditures in adults, as well as to identify whether physical activity, biochemical markers and obesity affect this relationship. The sample was composed of 168 adults aged ≥ 50 years attended by two Basic Healthcare Units in Presidente Prudente, SP, Brazil. Health expenditure, sleep pattern, anthropometry, adiposity index, physical activity, metabolic and cardiovascular variables were assessed.

Impact of sports participation on incidence of bone traumatic fractures and health-care costs among adolescents: ABCD - Growth Study.

: To analyze the risk of bone traumatic fractures according to the engagement in sports, as well as to identify the potential impact of sports participation and traumatic fractures on health-care costs among adolescents. : This is a longitudinal 12-month study of 285 adolescents of both sexes in Brazil. We assessed the occurrence of traumatic fractures and health-care services (hospitalizations, medicine use, medical consultations, and exams) by phone contact every month for 12 months.

Metabolic Syndrome, Physical Activity, and Medication-Related Expenditures: A Longitudinal Analysis.

Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a combination of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The prevalence of MetS worldwide is increasing. There is no study investigating the economic burden of MetS, especially in developing countries, on medication-related expenditure.

Health indicators and costs among outpatients according to physical activity level and obesity.

Objective: How biochemical variables influence the costs of the Brazilian National Healthcare System, according to body composition and physical activity.

Methods: Participated in this study 168 patients. Biochemical variables were glucose, triglycerides, total cholesterol, high, low, very low density lipoprotein and C-reactive protein (CRP).