Personal Activity Intelligence (PAI), Sedentary Behavior and Cardiovascular Risk Factor Clustering - The HUNT Study

Prolonged sedentary behavior (SB) positively associates with clustering of risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The recently developed metric for physical activity (PA) tracking called Personal Activity Intelligence (PAI) takes into account age, sex, resting and maximum heart rate, and a score of ≥100 weekly PAI has been shown to reduce the risk of premature CVD death in healthy as well as individuals with known CVD risk factors, regardless of whether or not the current PA recommendations were met.

Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - March 4, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Nina Zisko, Kjerstin N æss Skjerve, Atefe R. Tari, Silvana Bucher Sandbakk, Ulrik Wisloff, Bjarne M. Nes, Javaid Nauman Source Type: research