ArticleBritish journal of sports medicine2024
Associations of the 'weekend warrior' physical activity pattern with all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality: the Mexico City Prospective Study.
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- The weekend warrior phenomenon: comparable mortality reduction to regular exercise with enhanced neuroprotective effects-a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Physical activity trajectories and accumulation over adulthood and their associations with all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis.British journal of sports medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Weekend warrior and the risk of specific disease: a meta-epidemiology study.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Weekend Warrior and other physical activity patterns: mortality and life expectancy in individuals with cardiometabolic multimorbidity.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2026Article
- Weekend Warrior Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Incident Disability in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A UK Biobank Accelerometer Study.Geriatrics & gerontology international · 2026Article
- Longitudinal association between the weekend warrior physical activity pattern and cognitive function trajectories among middle-aged and older Chinese adults.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2026Article
- The Association Between "Weekend Warrior" Physical Activity Pattern and Neuropsychological Outcomes: A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Accelerometer-derived "weekend warrior" physical activity pattern and risk of age-related eye diseases: a prospective cohort study.Eye and vision (London, England) · 2026Article
- Associations of weekend warrior and regular physical activity patterns with prevalence of hypertension by socioeconomic status in Korean adults.Clinical hypertension · 2026Article
- Joint associations between exercising and classical cardiometabolic risk factors with all-cause, premature and cardiovascular mortality: a prospective cohort study among Mexican adults.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Association of 'weekend warrior' and other physical activity patterns with mortality in adults with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: prospective national cohort study.Lipids in health and disease · 2025Article
- Weekend warriors, physical activity pattern and all-cause mortality: a prospective study of 150,145 Mexican adults with and without hypertension.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Joint association of dietary index for gut microbiota and weekend warrior physical activity pattern with mortality among hypertensive patients.Nutrition & metabolism · 2025Article
- Trajectories of physical activity patterns across the life course in Mexican adults: findings from the Mexico city prospective study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Sports Pre-Participation Evaluation in Healthy Adults-A Survey-Based Assessment of Guideline Acceptability and Feasibility Among Sports Physicians and Participants.Clinical and public health guidelines · 2025Article
- A decade of change: Increasing "weekend warrior" behavior and physical activity trends among middle-aged and older adults in China (2011-2020).Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
- Sex differences in the association of physical activity patterns with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: a prospective cohort study from NHANES 2007-2018.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Physical Activity and Cancer Incidence and Mortality: Current Evidence and Biological Mechanisms.Cancers · 2025Review
- Association of Accelerometer-Derived Physical Activity Pattern With the Risks of All-Cause, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer Death.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Accelerometer-derived physical activity patterns and incident type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectivesThe objective was to investigate the benefits of the 'weekend warrior' physical activity pattern in Latin America, where many people take part in high levels of non-exercise physical activity.
methodsParticipants in the Mexico City Prospective Study were surveyed from 1998 to 2004 and resurveyed from 2015 to 2019. Those who exercised up to once or twice per week were termed weekend warriors. Those who exercised more often were termed regularly active. Analyses were adjusted for potential confounders.
resultsThe main analysis included 26 006 deaths in 154 882 adults (67% female) aged 52±13 years followed for 18±4 years (mean±SD). Compared with those who reported no exercise, the HR (95% CI) was 0.88 (0.83 to 0.93) in the weekend warriors and 0.88 (0.84 to 0.91) in the regularly active. Similar results were observed for cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality, but associations were weaker. Stratified analyses showed that substantial reductions in all-cause mortality risk only occurred when the duration of exercise sessions was at least 30-60 min. The repeated-measures analysis included 843 deaths in 10 023 adults followed for 20±2 years. Compared with being inactive or becoming inactive, the HR was 0.86 (95% CI 0.65 to 1.12) when being a weekend warrior or becoming a weekend warrior and 0.85 (95% CI 0.70 to 1.03) when being regularly active or becoming regularly active.
conclusionsThis is the first prospective study to investigate the benefits of the weekend warrior physical activity pattern in Latin America. The results suggest that even busy adults could benefit from taking part in one or two sessions of exercise per week.
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