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Does physical activity concentrated within 1 to 2 days reduce incident cardiovascular disease compared to more evenly distributed activity?
Does physical activity concentrated within 1 to 2 days reduce incident cardiovascular disease compared to more evenly distributed activity?
Concentrating physical activity into 1 to 2 days a week provides similar cardiovascular benefits to spreading it evenly throughout the week.
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May support flexible activity patterns clinically; leaves open causality and guideline impact pending RCTs.
Physical activity concentrated within 1 to 2 days was associated with similarly lower risk of cardiovascular outcomes to more evenly distributed activity.
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Khurshid et al. (2023) studied this question.
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