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Sleep quality and regular physical activity in reducing cardiac risk

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Abstract

Background

Adolescents with sedentary behavior, spending many hours in front of the television and electronic devices, develop early involvement of cardiovascular disease and obesity. These sedentary behaviors increased significantly in this age group during the pandemic of 2020/2021. Sleep directly influences aspects of health, such as blood pressure and cardiac autonomic balance and exercise has a protective effect on these same physiological parameters.

Objective

This study aimed to examine whether or not physically active adolescents positively influence HRV and cardiovascular parameters despite poor sleep quality.

Methods

This is an analytic and transversal study. Sleep quality, physical activity levels, blood pressure, and heart rate variability (HRV) were measured. Two-way ANOVA and Tuckey post hoc test evaluated the difference between groups.

Results

Among 352 adolescents entrolled, mean age was 15.8 ± 0.24 years. It was observed that compared to the physically active group with poor sleep quality, the sedentary poor sleep quality group presented a more significant deficit in blood pressure and autonomic parameters such as pNN50, SD1, and HF.

Conclusion

Adolescents who practiced physical activity regularly have shown better HRV and sleep quality compared with sedentary adolescents.

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Data availability

The data that support the findings of this study are not openly available due to reasons of sensitivity human data and are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Maranhão - FAPEMA (Universal - 01293/16); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Maranhão - FAPEMA- (BEPP-01404/21, universal 00919/17) and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001.

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  1. Universidade Federal Do Maranhão (UFMA), São Luís, Brazil

    Nivaldo de Jesus Silva Soares Junior, Carlos Alberto Alves Dias-Filho, Andressa Coelho Ferreira, Sally Cristina Moutinho Monteiro & Cristiano T. Mostarda

  2. Laboratório de Adaptações Cardiovasculares ao Exercício – LACORE (UFMA), São Luís, Brazil

    Nivaldo de Jesus Silva Soares Junior, Carlos Alberto Alves Dias-Filho, Andressa Coelho Ferreira & Cristiano T. Mostarda

  3. Departamento de Farmácia – UFMA, Universidade Federal Do Maranhão, São Luís, Brazil

    Sally Cristina Moutinho Monteiro

  4. Faculdade de Educação Física da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso - FEF/UFMT, Cuiabá, Brazil

    Henrique de Oliveira Castro

  5. Departamento de Psicobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil

    Mayra Santos Silva

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de Jesus Silva Soares Junior, N., Dias-Filho, C.A.A., Ferreira, A.C. et al. Sleep quality and regular physical activity in reducing cardiac risk. Sleep Breath 27, 953–960 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11325-022-02688-x

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