Health profile of elderly users of a town public program of physical activity: a cross-sectional study
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https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.1678Keywords:
physical activity , elderly, public health, community programs, exerciseAbstract
The assessment of health profile in users attending such public programs may optimize tailoring of interventions oriented to reduce the risk or incidence of lifestyle-driven diseases, resulting in a potential impact on public health. Therefore, this cross-sectional study aimed to characterize the health profile of the elderly participants in the physical activity public program in southern Brazil. Therefore, we included 11 community exercise centers managed by the city of Porto Alegre (Brazil). We used simple random sampling, with sample size weight by the number of participants in each individual center. Several health domains were measured by self-reported questionnaires (e.g., cardiovascular risk factors and quality of life), office blood pressure measurements, blood assessments (i.e., lipid profile and HbA1c) and functional tests (i.e., 6-minute walk test and handgrip strength) between April/2018 to February/2019. The results are mostly reported using descriptive statistics. We observed that high self-reported prevalences regarded to cardiovascular risk factors, more specifically for sleep disorder (55%), hypercholesterolemia (54%) and hypertension (49%). Among self-reported diseases, the participants listed cardiovascular diseases (14%), previous cancer (15%), diabetes (13%), arthritis (30%), and depression (19%). The results observed in the 6-minute walk test (mean±sd 498±78.95 m) and handgrip test (mean±sd 27±8.13 kg) showed the expected levels for active elderly. Overall, the prevalences presented herein allow to contrast the estimated prevalences of older adults using a public program of physical activity to other populational estimates or single studies, fostering the future monitoring of assessments and interventions in sensible conditions (e.g., hypertension, sleep disorder) for this population.
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Copyright (c) 2021 Fernando Matos Dourado, Nórton Luís Oliveira, Lucas Helal, Luiza Isnardi Cardoso Ricardo, Leandro dos Santos, Angélica Trevisan De Nardi, Cíntia Ehlers Botton, Lucineia Orsolin Pfeifer, Laura Milán Vasques, Lucas Porto Santos, Bruna Góes Moraes, Larissa Xavier Neves da Silva, Daniel de Umpierre

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