Increasing vigorous exercise decreases risk of type two diabetes, cardiovascular disease in childhood
Monday, October 15, 2018 - 09:30
in Health & Medicine
Physical exercise can reduce the risk factors of type two diabetes and cardiovascular disease even in children, a new study shows. In a two-year follow-up of primary school children, sedentary behavior increased the accumulation of risk factors, whereas increasing the amount of vigorous exercise reduced it. This is one of the first follow-up studies to reliably demonstrate these associations in children.