• Baroreflex sensitivity following acute upper-body exercise in the cold among stable coronary artery disease patients 

      Pikkarainen, Kalle; Valtonen, Rasmus; Hintsala, Heidi; Kiviniemi, Antti; Crandall, Craig; Perkiömäki, Juha; Hautala, Arto; Tulppo, Mikko; Jaakkola, Jouni; Ikäheimo, Tiina Maria Anneli (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-13)
      Background: A cold environment and exercise separately affect the autonomic nervous system (ANS), baroreflex sensitivity (BRS), and blood pressure variability (BPV) but their combined effects on post-exercise recovery are not known. Our cross-over trial examined these responses following upper-body static and dynamic exercise performed in a cold and neutral environment in patients with coronary ...
    • Compositional association of 24-h movement behavior with incident major adverse cardiac events and all-cause mortality 

      Niemelä, Maisa; Kiviniemi, Antti; Ikäheimo, Tiina; Tulppo, Mikko; Korpelainen, Raija; Jämsä, Timo; Farrahi, Vahid (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-11)
      Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes a high disease burden. Physical activity (PA) reduces CVD morbidity and mortality. We aimed to determine the relationship between the composition of moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA), light PA (LPA), sedentary behavior (SB), and sleep during midlife to the incidence of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) and all-cause mortality at a 7-year follow-up. The study ...
    • Physical activity, residential greenness, and cardiac autonomic function 

      Korpisaari, Maija; Puhakka, Soile; Farrahi, Vahid; Niemelä, Maisa; Tulppo, Mikko; Ikäheimo, Tiina Maria Anneli; Korpelainen, Raija; Lankila, Tiina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-28)
      Purpose: This population-based study examines the associations between physical activity (PA), residential environmental greenness, and cardiac health measured by resting short-term heart rate variability (HRV).<p> <p>Methods: Residential greenness of a birth cohort sample (n=5433) at 46 years was measured with normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) by fixing a 1km buffer around each ...