Association Between Recent Sports Activity, Sports Activity in Young Adulthood, and Stroke | Zendy

Armin Grau | Zendy; Cordula Barth | Zendy; Beate Geletneky | Zendy; Paul D. Ling | Zendy; Frederik Palm | Zendy; Christoph Lichy | Zendy; Heiko Becher | Zendy; Florian Buggle | Zendy

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Association Between Recent Sports Activity, Sports Activity in Young Adulthood, and Stroke

Author(s) -

Armin Grau,

Cordula Barth,

Beate Geletneky,

Paul D. Ling,

Frederik Palm,

Christoph Lichy,

Heiko Becher,

Florian Buggle

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.108.527978

Subject(s) - medicine , odds ratio , stroke (engine) , odds , young adult , physical therapy , case control study , population , logistic regression , environmental health , mechanical engineering , engineering

Leisure-time physical activity protects from stroke. It is insufficiently established whether early lifetime physical activity is independently protective and whether some etiologic stroke subgroups particularly benefit from physical activity. We tested the hypothesis that both recent and early-adulthood sports activities are associated with reduced odds of stroke and analyzed their effects in stroke subtypes.

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