Key Points
According to a study, the best time of day to increase the relationship between daily moderate to vigorous physical activity and obesity appears to be between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., despite conflicting epidemiological findings regarding the best timing of physical exercise for weight management...
Our study provided a novel tool to explore the diurnal pattern of physical activity and to investigate its impact on health outcomes, said Tongyu Ma, PhD, assistant professor, Health Sciences Department, Franklin Pierce University, Rindge, N.H.; and the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China..
Researchers investigated whether the diurnal pattern of accelerometer-measured moderate to vigorous physical activity changes the association between such human movement and obesity in the current study...
The diurnal pattern of objectively measured moderate to vigorous physical activity was classified into three categories by K-means clustering analysis: morning, mid-day and evening..
Results revealed a strong linear association between moderate to vigorous physical activity and obesity in the morning group, whereas a weaker curvilinear connection was found in the midday and evening groups...
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