ArticleInternational journal of cardiology. Cardiovascular risk and prevention2025
Do music-related leisure activities influence cardiovascular disease risk, blood pressure and heart rate in older adults?
Article in International journal of cardiology. Cardiovascular risk and prevention, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: This study examined the associations between music-related leisure activities (listening to music or playing a musical instrument) and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) events, changes in systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP, DBP) and heart rate (HR) among community-dwelling Australians aged ≥70 years. Whether these associations varied by gender and age was also explored. Methods: Longitudinal data from individuals enrolled in the ASPREE-XT study were analyzed. Participants had no prior CVD events or known life-limiting health conditions at baseline. Cox proportional-hazard regression and linear mixed models were used. Results: Among 10,591 participants followed for a median of 5.5 years, 780 incident CVD events occurred. After adjustment for sociodemographic factors, often listening to music was associated with a 23 % lower risk and always listening to music with an 18 % lower risk of incident CVD events. These associations attenuated after further adjustment for behaviors and clinical measures. Playing a musical instrument was not associated with incident CVD events. Findings did not differ by gender or age group (p-interaction>0.05). No associations were found between music-related activities and changes in SBP, DBP and HR. However, always listening to music was associated with an increase in HR per year among women (adjusted-beta, 0.13). Among people aged ≥74 years, often/always playing musical instruments was associated with an increase in SBP (adjusted-beta, 0.44) and DBP (adjusted-beta, 0.17) per year. Conclusion: Our preliminary findings provide little evidence of a link between listening to music and a reduced CVD risk, other than that through associated behavioral factors.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.