Wellness
- Nearly 75 million American adults are misclassified as cardiometabolically unhealthy or cardiometabolically healthy when body mass index (BMI) categories are used as the main indicator of health.
- Using blood pressure, triglyceride, cholesterol, glucose, insulin resistance, and C-reactive protein data is more accurate than BMI.
- BMI misclassified nearly half of overweight individuals, 29% of obese individuals, and even 16% of individuals with type II/III were obesity as metabolically healthy.
- Conversely, nearly 30% of normal-weight individuals were misclassified by BMI as unhealthy.
- Telomerase activity is associated with successful DNA replication.
- Studies link psychological stress, mental disorders, lifestyle factors, and interventions with variations in telomerase activity.
- There are many potential molecular mechanisms underlying the changes in telomerase activity affected by psychological stress, mental disorders, and lifestyle factors.
- Time sitting correlates with increased all-cause mortality.
- Time exercising does not offset deleterious effects of prolonged sitting.
- Replacing sitting with nearly any other activity increases patients’ health.
- Time standing, walking, cleaning, gardening, or partaking in a host of other, common activities reduces risk of morbidity and mortality.