The Relationship between Physical Activity and Health Status for Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia and Diabetes Middle-aged Population

• Main Authors: Szu Hua Lai, 賴思樺
• Other Authors: Y. J. Chuang
• Format: Others
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39394048261224636002

碩士 === 長庚大學 === 醫務管理學系 === 100 === Nowadays, Taiwanese top ten cause of death have been change from infectious disease to chronic. Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia and Diabetes have high degree with heart, brain, liver and kidney disease. Therefore, if someone who has Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia or Diabetes they will have more risk getting heart disease or stroke in the future. Today, our lifestyle becomes more static and it will cause obese easily. The effect of physical activity (such as exercise and sedentary) to health is an issue that many people start to discuss. This research will use data which is from National Health Interview Survey in 2005. We will intercept 30 to 64 years old people with their demographic, health status and health behavior data. To figure out the degree of correlation between sedentary time and these three diseases, physical activity and health status factors. The result displays that about one third of middle-aged people has at least one of Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia or Diabetes. Men’s average physical activity time in each day is 84.86 minutes higher than women’s 44.78. But both have almost 280 minutes in sedentary every day. Even people do more activity, it still have high percentage in Hypertension and Hyperlipidemia with long sedentary time. The person who has following factors had positive correlation with sedentary: the younger one in the middle-aged, at least one of Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia or Diabetes, high education, heavy smoking or had been cessation, mild or heavy degrees drinkers, and male who’s BMI over standard.