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Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the Public Health desk.
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An ETH Zurich preprint used physiological and environmental signals from 20 participants to distinguish ambient temperature, humidity and physical exertion with 94.7% Random Forest accuracy. The exploratory study is an early step toward person-centred heat monitoring and requires testing in real-world settings.
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A medRxiv preprint links moderate-to-vigorous leisure-time activity with lower BMI, waist-to-height ratio and central-adiposity risk in adults aged 60 to 80 at high cardiovascular risk. The analysis found the strongest reduction in central-adiposity risk up to about 400 MET·min/day.
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A medRxiv preprint analysing 12,944 participants from nationally representative cohorts in China, England and the United States found that higher estimated cardiorespiratory fitness was associated with a lower risk of developing two or more cardiometabolic conditions. The observational study suggests that a non-exercise fitness estimate may help characterise risk, but it does not establish that increasing fitness prevents these conditions.