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Association between Morphological Variables and Physical Fitness with Health Status in Older People

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Aging".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2023) | Viewed by 6613

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Dr. Pablo Valdés-Badilla

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Department of Physical Activity Sciences, Faculty of Education Sciences, Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca 3530000, Chile
Interests: obesity in the elderly; health-related physical fitness interventions for overweight or obesity in the life cycle
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Dr. Braulio Henrique Magnani Branco

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Graduate Program in Health Promotion, Cesumar University (UniCesumar), Maringá 87050-900, Brazil
Interests: aerobic training; patient care team; primary prevention; exercise therapy; remedial exercises; resistance training
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Dear Colleagues,

The benefits of regular physical activity practice on various health variables in older people have been widely and extensively reported in scientific evidence. Resistance training, multi-component training, walking exercise, and healthy dance are the most commonly used physical activity interventions in older people, which have reported significant increases in muscle strength of the lower and upper limbs, cardiorespiratory fitness, flexibility, agility, and dynamic balance, among others, in addition to achieving beneficial changes in physiological and psychoemotional health with adherence rates above 70%. For this Special Issue, authors are invited to submit original studies, prospective longitudinal designs, case reports, study protocols, or systematic reviews of recent work on the benefits of physical activity on health status in older people. Some subareas of interest include new physical activity strategies (e.g., adapted sports, multimodal exercise, others), functional independence, motor skills, activities of daily living, cognitive status, brain activity, health-related quality of life, institutionalization, and feasibility.

Dr. Pablo Valdés-Badilla
Dr. Braulio Henrique Magnani Branco
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Keywords

  • exercise
  • sports
  • martial arts
  • physical performance
  • body composition
  • lipid profile
  • nutrition
  • mental health
  • older adults
  • aging

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Effects of a Structured Multicomponent Physical Exercise Intervention on Quality of Life and Biopsychosocial Health among Chilean Older Adults from the Community with Controlled Multimorbidity: A Pre–Post Design
by Rafael Pizarro-Mena, Samuel Duran-Aguero, Solange Parra-Soto, Francisco Vargas-Silva, Sebastian Bello-Lepe and Mauricio Fuentes-Alburquenque
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(23), 15842; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315842 - 28 Nov 2022
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Structured multicomponent physical exercise (PE) for older adults, with a combination of strength, aerobic, flexibility, and balance exercises, has been shown to have benefits for physical, cognitive, social, and metabolic functioning, as well as counteracting chronic pathologies and geriatric syndromes. However, little is [...] Read more.
Structured multicomponent physical exercise (PE) for older adults, with a combination of strength, aerobic, flexibility, and balance exercises, has been shown to have benefits for physical, cognitive, social, and metabolic functioning, as well as counteracting chronic pathologies and geriatric syndromes. However, little is known about the effect of these interventions in Chilean older adults. Our objective was to determine the effect of a structured multicomponent PE intervention on the quality of life (QoL) and biopsychosocial factors of community-living older adults. We conducted a pre–post intervention without control group, with a face-to-face structured multicomponent PE intervention (cardiovascular, strength/power, flexibility, static and dynamic balance, other psychomotor components, and education), based on FITT-VP principles (frequency, intensity, type, time, volume, and progression of exercise), at moderate intensity, 60 min per session, three times per week, and 12 weeks in duration, among 45 persons with an average age of 70.74 years. Participants were evaluated at the beginning and end of the intervention with different instruments of comprehensive gerontological assessment (CGA). Post intervention, participants (83.70% average attendance) significantly improved scores in QoL, biological and biopsychosocial frailty, sarcopenia, functionality in basic, instrumental, and advanced activities of daily living, dynamic balance, cognitive status and mood, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, weight, body mass index, strength and flexibility clinical tests of lower and upper extremity, aerobic capacity, agility, and tandem balance. The indication and prescription of structured multicomponent PE based on FITT-VP principles, as evaluated with the CGA, improved the QoL and biopsychosocial health of older adults. This intervention could serve as a pilot for RCTs or to improve PE programs or services for older adults under the auspices of existing public policy. Full article
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Factors Associated with Poor Health-Related Quality of Life in Physically Active Older People
by Pablo Valdés-Badilla, Miguel Alarcón-Rivera, Jordan Hernandez-Martinez, Tomás Herrera-Valenzuela, Braulio Henrique Magnani Branco, Cristian Núñez-Espinosa and Eduardo Guzmán-Muñoz
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(21), 13799; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192113799 - 24 Oct 2022
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This study aimed to associate morphological variables and physical fitness with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in physically active older people. A cross-sectional study was carried out that evaluated 470 older people (89.57% female) with a mean age of 70.13 ± 6.57 years, [...] Read more.
This study aimed to associate morphological variables and physical fitness with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in physically active older people. A cross-sectional study was carried out that evaluated 470 older people (89.57% female) with a mean age of 70.13 ± 6.57 years, residing in two regions of Chile. Morphological variables (body weight, bipedal height, waist circumference, body mass index, and waist to height ratio), physical fitness through the Senior Fitness Test protocol, and HRQoL using the SF-36 questionnaire were obtained. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify risk factors between morphological variables and physical fitness associated with HRQoL. The main results indicated that overweight (OR = 1.52; p = 0.034), a waist circumference with risk (OR = 1.56; p = 0.021), poor performance in the back scratch tests (OR = 1.02; p = 0.008) and timed up-and-go (OR = 1.19; p = 0.040) increased the probability of having a low general HRQoL. Also, the low performance of chair stand and arm curl tests was associated with poor physical and social dimensions of HRQoL (p < 0.05). In conclusion, a low HRQoL in physically active older people is associated with both morphological and physical fitness factors. Full article
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