Moderately vigorous physical activity tagged posts

Midlife Physical Activity and Cognition Later in Life: A Prospective Twin Study. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 2016; 1 DOI: 10.3233/JAD-160377

Moderately vigorous physical activity – i.e., more strenuous than walking – to be associated with better cognition in a 25-year follow-up study of 3050 twins from the Finnish Twin Cohort. The association was statistically independent of hypertension, smoking, education level, sex, obesity, binge drinking. “This suggests that the beneficial influence of physical activity on the brain and cognition is not solely based on decreasing vascular risk factors,” says Paula Iso-Markku from the University of Helsinki.

The association was studied first in all individuals of the cohort, and then by comparing later cognition in pairs where one twin was more phy...