Cosmetic Surgery and Beauty Magazine #68

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2 MINUTES WALKING EACH
HOUR MAY REDUCE THE RISK
OF PROLONGED SITTING
We all know prolonged sitting it no good for our health. But new
research, published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of
Nephrology (CJASN), has found just two minutes of walking every hour
might reduce the hazard of sitting for long periods.
Past research has linked sitting each day for long periods to premature
death and an increased risk of heart disease and diabetes. And, although
we are encouraged to perform at least thirty minutes of moderate exercise
each day to waylay these risks, the new study was looking to fi nd an
easier, more achievable solution to maintaining health in offi ce workers.
For their analysis, the research team used data on 3,243 participants
in the 2003-04 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in
America. The researchers asked participants to wear accelerometers
for several days. From this, they worked out how many minutes per
hour were spent on sedentary (less than 100 accelerometer counts per
minute), low (100-499), light (500-2019) and moderate to vigorous (2020
and over) activity.
They found low intensity activities such as standing did not work to
offset the effects of long-term sitting, but trading two minutes of sitting to
two minutes of light-intensity activity each hour resulted in a 33 per cent
lower risk of premature death.
“It was fascinating to see the results because the current national
focus is on moderate or vigorous activity. To see that light activity had
an association with lower mortality is intriguing,” lead author Srinivasan
Beddhu, professor of internal medicine at the University of Utah School
of Medicine in Salt Lake City, explains. “Based on these results we would
recommend adding two minutes of walking each hour in combination
with normal activities, which should include 2.5 hours of moderate
exercise each week.”
Senior citizens face no added risk from cosmetic surgery
New research from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center has found
senior citizens are at no higher risk of complications following cosmetic
surgery compared to younger patients.
In a data analysis of more 129,000 patients, the researchers found
no signifi cant difference in complication rate in patients under or over 65
years of age.
The procedures studied varied from facelift to liposuction. The only
surgery to show a slightly higher rate of complication in older patients was
abdominoplasty, where the complication rate was 5.4 per cent for older
patients and 3.9 per cent for younger patients.
‘Similar outcomes of cosmetic surgery in younger and older patients
have never been shown before on such a large scale,’ said Max Yezhelyev,
M.D., Ph.D., the author of the study and a plastic surgery resident at
Vanderbilt. ‘Our study demonstrated that patients over 65 can safely
undergo cosmetic procedures with a complications rate similar to younger
patients when surgery is performed by a board-certifi ed plastic surgeon.’
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