Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Psychosocial variables moderate the relationship between leisure time physical activity and mortality among myocardial infarction survivors

Leisure time physical activity (LTPA) is inversely related to mortality risk among patients with a history of myocardial infarction (MI). In a paper just published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders -with Dr. Rony Oosterom-Calo as first author- we explored if heart failure (HF) status and psychosocial variables moderate this association in a prospective cohort study among MI survivors.
LTPA was inversely associated with mortality. HF did not, but psychosocial variables did, moderate the association. Among the higher active patients, patients with a high level of depression had a lower mortality risk in comparison to those with a low level, and patients with a low level of social support had a lower mortality risk in comparison to those with a high level of social support.