Relationship between functional fitness, medication costs and mood in elderly people

Objective: to verify if functional fitness (FF) is associated with the annual cost of medication consumption and mood states (MSt) in elderly people. Methods: a cross-sectional study with 229 elderly people aged 65 years or more at Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Coimbra, Portugal. Seniors with physical and psychological limitations were excluded, as well as those using medication that limits performance on the tests. The Senior Fitness Test was used to evaluate FF, and the Profile of Mood States - Short Form to evaluate the MSt. The statistical analysis was based on Mancova, with adjustment for age, for comparison between men and women, and adjustment for sex, for comparison between cardiorespiratory fitness quintiles. The association between the variables under study was made with partial correlation, controlling for the effects of age, sex and body mass index. Results: an inverse correlation between cardiorespiratory fitness and the annual cost of medication consumption was found (p < 0.01). FF is also inversely associated with MSt (p < 0.05). Comparisons between cardiorespiratory fitness quintiles showed higher medication consumption costs in seniors with lower aerobic endurance, as well as higher deterioration in MSt (p < 0.01). Conclusion: elderly people with better FF and, specifically, better cardiorespiratory fitness present lower medication consumption costs and a more positive MSt

Sports Participation and Health Care Costs in Older Adults Aged 50 Years or Older

Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology; São Paulo Research Foundatio

Impact of sports participation on incidence of bone traumatic fractures and health care costs among adolescents: ABCD – Growth Study

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis.Objective: To analyze the risk of bone traumatic fractures according to the engagement in sports, as well as to identify the potential impact of sports participation and traumatic fractures on health care costs among adolescents. Methods: This is a longitudinal 12-months follow-up study of 285 adolescents of both sexes in Brazil. We assessed the occurrence of traumatic fractures and health care services (hospitalizations, medicine use, medical consultations and exams) by phone contact every single month for 12 months. Adolescents were divided into four groups according to sport characteristics: non-sport (n= 104), non-impact sport (swimming [n= 34]), martial arts (n= 49 [judo, karate, kung-Fu]) and impact sports (n= 98 [track-and-field, basketball, gymnastics, tennis, and baseball]). Results: The incidence of new fractures was 2.1%. The overall costs accounted during the 12-month follow-up were U$3,259.66. Swimmers (US$ 13.86) had higher health care costs than non-sport (US$1.82), martial arts (US$ 2.23) and impact sports (US$ 2.32). Conclusion: swimming seems to be related to higher health care costs among adolescents

Os custos da inatividade física no mundo: estudo de revisão

Resumo Os benefícios da atividade física e do exercício físico para a manutenção da saúde e a prevenção de doenças estão bem esclarecidos na literatura científica. Entretanto, estudos associando os custos da utilização de serviços de saúde e com os da inatividade física ainda são poucos. Pesquisas internacionais quantificaram estes custos e apresentaram associações com a prática de atividade física e/ou comportamento sedentário. Assim, o objetivo desta revisão foi, a partir destas informações, analisar os custos mundiais relacionados à inatividade física nas últimas décadas. Foram utilizados os resultados de 24 artigos originais, conduzidos em nove países, incluindo o Brasil. Os resultados mostraram que a inatividade física, independente do método de classificação, é onerosa à economia da saúde em todo o mundo e diretamente responsável pelo alto gasto com medicamentos, internação hospitalar e consultas clínicas. Os gastos com a parcela da população fisicamente inativa, acometida por doenças crônicas,estão entre os principais integrantes dos custos totais em saúde pública

Interrelationship between arterial hypertension, health service costs, therapeutic treatment and physical activity

Availability of data and materials: The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.Copyright © The Author(s) 2023. Background: Arterial hypertension is a high prevalence disease that increase healthcare costs and affects physical activity level. This study aimed to analyse the interrelationship between arterial hypertension, health service costs, therapeutic treatment, and physical activity in patients with cardiovascular diseases. Method: Cross-sectional study that evaluated 306 patients from a hospital in Presidente Prudente-Brazil. Based on their medical diagnosis, they were classified into multiple groups to access primary care and hospital-related costs variations. Then, using data from medical records and face to face interviews, they were examined on their treatment adherence and physical activity practice. Healthcare costs were accessed using medical records. Finally, the generalised linear model was used to analyse the interrelationship between treatment adherence, physical activity, health care costs and arterial hypertension. The data were analysed with Stata/MP4 16, and a p-value of less than 5% was used to determine statistical significance. Results: The group that adhered to the arterial hypertension treatments but were physically inactive presented higher costs with consultation (US$=24.1, 95$=56.60, 95%CI = 1.65; 111.5) and total primary health care costs (US$=71.60, 95%CI = 19.2; 123.9) even after adjusting for confounding variables, meanwhile those participants that adhered to the treatments and were physical active did not present difference in healthcare cost when compared to normotensive and physical active participants. Conclusion: To be adherent to hypertension treatment were related to higher health care costs meanwhile been physical activity were related to lower health care costs and the combination of both showed that be adherent and physical activity represent the same cost with health than those normotensive and active emphasizing the importance of adherence and physical activity in the hypertensive treatment.The Sao Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP. Process 2018/07281-9 and 2019/11339-5

Caminhada e gastos com saúde em adultos usuários do sistema público de saúde brasileiro: estudo transversal retrospectivo

A inatividade física é um dos maiores desafios à saúde pública devido à sua associação com doenças crônicas e ao impacto econômico sobre o sistema público de saúde. Entretanto, a prática de caminhada pode auxiliar a amenizar esses problemas. Objetivo Verificar se existem associações entre prática de caminhada no lazer, presença de fatores de risco e gastos relacionados ao uso de serviços de saúde em usuários do sistema público de saúde brasileiro. Metodologia A amostra foi composta por 963 adultos. A prática de caminhada foi avaliada a partir de questionário de Baecke. Gasto com tratamento/ano foi avaliado pela demanda por serviços registrados nos prontuários clínicos. Resultados Prática de caminhada como atividade física de lazer foi referida por 64,4% dos participantes. Os grupos de maior prática de caminhada apresentaram menores valores para idade, IMC, CC e gastos com medicamentos. Indivíduos inseridos na categoria de maior envolvimento apresentaram 41% menos chances de estarem inserido no grupo de maior gasto total (OR=0.59; IC95% 0.39-0.89). Conclusão Verificou-se que a prática de caminhada como atividade física de lazer foi a mais frequente para a maioria dos usuários do SUS, a qual foi associada a menores gastos com medicamentos e no total

Low levels of physical activity and metabolic syndrome: cross-sectional study in the Brazilian public health system

Abstract This study investigated whether low levels of physical activity in different domains is associated with risk factors for the occurrence of metabolic syndrome or metabolic syndrome itself. Habitual physical activity level was assessed among 963 participants, aged 50 years old or more, using Baecke’s questionnaire. Risk factors for metabolic syndrome followed the recommendations of “The IDF Consensus Worldwide Definition of the Metabolic Syndrome”. All the participants were users of the Brazilian Public Healthcare System. The prevalence of metabolic syndrome was 30.9%. Participants with lower levels of physical activity in leisure-time had higher chances of occurrence of diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia and metabolic syndrome. Occurrence of arterial hypertension was associated with lower levels of sports activities. It was found high rates of risk indicators for the occurrence of metabolic syndrome, as well as for diseases alone as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia, and obesity. Lower involvement in physical activity in different domains increases the prevalence of risk factors for metabolic syndrome