Even lower VO2peak in men with schizophrenia compared to normative inactive men might suggest that more than just inactivity contribute the reduced VO2peak.
Inactive men may have a substantially increased risk for broken bones of all kinds, and especially for hip fractures, a new Swedish study has found.
Nevertheless, inactive men are twice as likely as women to find a job.
The VO2peak from age and sex strata for healthy inactive men and women were titled HUNT inactive.
Compared to inactive men, mortality risk was reduced by 15% in infrequently active men and by 36% in regularly active men.
The risk for MetS among physically inactive men was significantly higher than that for physically active men after adjustment for age, sedentary time, low intensity activity, smoking, calorie intake and BMI (Table 3: OR, 2.27; 95% CI, 1.22-6.29).
In particular, physically active men were more likely than inactive men to have been educated beyond primary school, and were less likely to be current smokers and add salt to their food.
For the main analyses, active men were divided into quartiles of MET-hours per week which, together with inactive men (those performing 0 MET-hours per week), produced five groups: 0, 15 24 15–25 395–39, ≥40 MET-hours per week.
After a 10 year period of increased physical activity the excess mortality seen in inactive men was reduced to the same levels of mortality as seen in physically active men.
Excluding first 2 years of follow-up: hazard ratios for incidence of major vascular events in active versus inactive men, by age at risk (among 7350 participants) (PDF 14 kb) Additional file 5: Table S5.
