Effect on Physical Fitness of a 10-Year Physical Activity Intervention in Primary Health Care Settings

Nakamura, Priscila Missaki; Papini, Camila Bosquiero; Teixeira, Inaian Pignatti; Chiyoda, Alberto; Luciano, Eliete; Cordeira, Kelly Lynn; Kokubun, Eduardo

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“…“Saúde Ativa Rio Claro” (SARC) is a community-based exercise intervention in primary care designed to promote and maintain physical activity levels of residents in Rio Claro City, Brazil. Since 2001, SARC operates in basic health care units and reaches approximately 400 low-income adults aged 35 years or older [ 16 ]. Evidence suggests that this program improves blood cholesterol, LDL, HDL, and glucose profiles [ 17 , 18 ].…”

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The Effect of a Community-Based, Primary Health Care Exercise Program on Inflammatory Biomarkers and Hormone Levels

Papini

Nakamura

Zorzetto

et al. 2014

Mediators of Inflammation

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The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of a community-based exercise program in primary care on inflammatory biomarkers and hormone levels. The 1-year quasiexperimental study involved 13 women (mean age = 56.8 ± 11.4 years) and it was developed in two basic health care units in Rio Claro City, Brazil. The physical exercise intervention was comprised of two, 60-minute sessions/week. The inflammatory biomarkers were measured at baseline, 6 months, and 1 year. Repeated measures ANOVA analyses indicated that the intervention was effective in reducing CRP and TNFα after 1 year compared to baseline and 6 months (P < 0.05). There were no changes in IL10, IL6, and insulin after 1 year. However, leptin significantly increased at 1 year (P = 0.016). The major finding of this study is that a community-based exercise program can result in a decrease or maintenance of inflammatory biomarkers after 1 year, and thus has the potential to be a viable public health approach for chronic disease prevention.

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The Effect of a Community-Based, Primary Health Care Exercise Program on Inflammatory Biomarkers and Hormone Levels

Papini

Nakamura

Zorzetto

et al. 2014

Mediators of Inflammation

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“…When it comes to exercise, aerobics is highly regarded in Western countries. (26,27) While CM advocates moderately exercise without necessary sweating running or exercise on equipments in gymnasiums, which combines somatic exercise and breathing together, desiring for a harmonious state of spirit and body. Tai Chi is a typical mode of exercise existing in CM, which represents a good example of practicing CM.…”

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Promoting health wellness—The essentials of Chinese medicine

Bian

Liu

2015

Chin. J. Integr. Med.

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Chinese medicine is a healing medicine which respect the power of human body itself. The essentials of Chinese medicine is promoting health wellness instead of disease management. Modern medicine just realized the limits of its theory. P4 medicine (personalized, predictive, preventive, and participatory/precision) similar to Chinese medicine theory is beginning to representing the pioneer in the Western world. In this review, we summarized different domains of Chinese medicine. Based on the basic of promoting health wellness, we compared the fundamental theory of Chinese medicine to the new merging P4 medicine idea of Western medicine. We also discussed the potential for using modern computational medicine technique to integrate Chinese medicine theory and Western medicine theory.

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“…Most of existing studies in primary health care have analyzed association of participation and physical fitness, inflammatory biomarkers or use of health services [25][26][27] . They are descriptive, qualitative, cross sectional or quasi-experimental studies with small samples [9][10]14,15,28,29 .…”

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Promotion of physical activity in primary health care settings: evaluation of the Saúde Ativa Rio Claro program

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Maciel²,

Gomes³

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Rev Bras Ativ Fís Saúde

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To evaluate the association between participation in the SaúdeAtiva Rio Claro (SARC) program and physical activity (PA) levels among adult women. A case control study was conducted in seven primary health care settings in Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil. The sample included 111 women participating in the intervention (mean age: 58±13 years). For each participant, we selected a non participant, matched to the intervention participant by age (± 5 years) and neighborhood. The program provides 1-hour multimodal exercise twice a week as well as general advice about health self-care. PA was measured using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) long version. While 18.0% of the non participants reported practicing 150 min/wk of leisure-time PA (LTPA) or more, 61.3% of the participants achieved such threshold (OR= 7.2; IC95%: 3.8-13.3). Participants performed more minutes compared to non-participants, even omitting the 100 min/wk of PA provided by the intervention (p<0.001). In addition to providing 100 min/wk of PA, SARC, an exercise promotion intervention in primary health care settings in Brazil, stimulates participants to increase PA levels in other settings. (OR=7,2; IC=3,(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)3 Keywords

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Effect on Physical Fitness of a 10-Year Physical Activity Intervention in Primary Health Care Settings

Abstract: The PEHPCP showed potential in improving muscle strength, coordination, aerobic capacity, and agility and dynamic balance in participants and in maintaining flexibility in participants.

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The Effect of a Community-Based, Primary Health Care Exercise Program on Inflammatory Biomarkers and Hormone Levels

The Effect of a Community-Based, Primary Health Care Exercise Program on Inflammatory Biomarkers and Hormone Levels

Promoting health wellness—The essentials of Chinese medicine

Promotion of physical activity in primary health care settings: evaluation of the Saúde Ativa Rio Claro program

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