Key result
Sedentary behavior interventions after stroke fail to reduce sedentary time or cardiovascular events.
Why the study?
Stroke survivors are often physically inactive and sedentary, and interventions to reduce sedentary time or increase physical activity could reduce cardiometabolic risk and secondary cardiovascular events.
Do interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour reduce the risk of secondary cardiovascular events and mortality in stroke survivors?
Systematic Review (n=753)
Do interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour reduce the risk of secondary cardiovascular events and mortality in stroke survivors?
Mean Difference: 0.13 (95% CI -0.42–0.68)
Interventions to reduce sedentary time in stroke survivors may reduce cardiometabolic risk and secondary cardiovascular events.
Stroke survivors are o en physically inactive as well as sedentary,and may sit for long periods of time each day. This increases cardiometabolic risk and has impacts on physical and other functions. Interventions to reduce or interrupt periods of sedentary time, as well as to increase physical activity a er stroke, could reduce the risk of secondary cardiovascular events and mortality during life a er stroke.
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Saunders et al. (2021) conducted a systematic review in Stroke (n=753). Interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour vs. Usual care, no intervention, or waiting-list control was evaluated on Sedentary behaviour time (hours/day) (MD 0.13, 95% CI -0.42 to 0.68). Interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour after stroke did not significantly change the amount of sedentary time (MD 0.13 hours/day) or reduce the risk of death or cardiovascular events.
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