Morning physicalactivity is associated with the lowest risk of heart disease and stroke
; and 4) evening . The categories were selected according to peak times of activity in the study population, rather than being pre-determined before the study began. Associations between peak time of activity and incident cardiovascular disease were analyzed using midday as the reference group.
After adjusting for age and sex, participants who were most active in the early morning or late morning had 11% and 16% lower risks of incident coronary artery disease, respectively, compared to the reference group. In addition, those who were most active in the late morning had a 17% decreased risk of incident stroke compared with the reference group.
The findings were consistent regardless of the total amount of daily activity, and whether participants described themselves as a morning person or an evening person. When the results were analyzed separately according to sex, the investigators found that the results were particularly prominent in women but no longer significant in men. Women who were most active in the
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