It is never too late: just move more, it may add years to your life

The results lead researchers to conclude that the transformation into a lifestyle is more active at any time of adults’s lives may extend, and that it has not been too late to start.

It is currently advisable that adults aim to 150-300 minutes a week of moderate physical activity, or 75-150 weekly minutes of severe physical activity, or a mixture of the two, observed researchers.

But although these recommendations were based on the best available evidence, most of them captured the measurements of physical activity only simultaneously, which may hide the potential effect of changing patterns during adulthood.

Therefore, the researchers wanted to know whether different patterns of physical activity, as well as their cumulative effect during adulthood, may be linked to a decrease in the risk of death from all causes, specifically from cardiovascular disease and cancer.

They searched for research databases for relevant studies that valued physical activity in two or more points in time, and they were included in their review of 85 studies published in English until April 2024, with samples of 357 to 6,572,984 participants.

Fifty -nine studies looked at the patterns of physical activity in the long run through adulthood; 16 I looked at the average benefits of different levels of physical activity; And 11 explore the potential effect of cumulative physical activity on the risk of death.

To overcome the challenges offered by the various analytical methods used, the researchers conducted separate analyzes for each of them.

An analysis of the collected data results showed that, in general, a higher level of physical activity has been associated with lower risks to all the results included.

Persons constantly (32 studies) had about 30-40 % of the risk of death of any cause, while those who increased levels of physical activity (21 studies) of less than those recommended have death risk less than 20 to 25 % of any cause.

Specifically, the participants who turned from being physically inactive into 22 % less active were to die than any of those who remained inactive, while those whose levels of physical activity increased at the time of entertainment were 27 % less likely to do so.

On the other hand, an active lifestyle switching an inactive activity was not associated with a lower risk of death from any cause.

In general, the associations that were observed between a high level of physical activity and reduced death reduced more clearly for cardiovascular disease than cancer.

Compared to the participants who were constantly inactive over time, those who were constantly active, generally, or at their spare time were 40 % less and 25 % less for death than cardiovascular disease, respectively.

In general, however, the evidence of the link between the patterns of physical activity and death from a specific cause of decisive, especially for the death caused by cancer.

Collected data indicates that people who were constantly active or have become active have less deaths than any cause, specifically from cardiovascular disease, when meeting the recommendations of the recommended weekly physical activity.

But physical activity continuously and exceeding more than the recommended maximum recommended from moderate exercises to strong intensity, only associated with an additional small reduction in risk.

The researchers say that maintaining or increasing physical activity at levels less than the recommended weekly amount was linked to remarkable health benefits, indicating that some physical activity is better than nothing.

The average physical activity that achieved the recommended amount of death was also associated with a decrease in death by 30-40 % of all causes. But more research is needed to confirm this, and they add.

Researchers admit some restrictions on their results, including most studies included in collected data analyzes depend on the self -assessment of physical activity, which may not be always accurate.

There were only a few studies that were considered cumulative amounts of physical activity, or cancer deaths.

However, the results have important effects on public health, insisting on researchers.

First, our results emphasized the importance of (physical activity) through adulthood, which indicates that the start (IT) at any time of adulthood may provide the advantages of survival. ”

And they add: “Since that you are constantly active provides more health benefits than you are previously active (i.e. no longer maintaining activity), this highlights the importance of continuous physical activity over time.

“Future interventions (physical activity) may not only target active people, but also support active people to maintain their activity.”