May 2, 2024 —
Membership in Seven Oaks General Hospital’s Wellness Institute is associated with a reduced risk of “serious adverse cardiovascular events” such as heart attack, stroke and heart failure, a UM study shows. I am.
And the study found that attending the facility at least once a week increased this positive association.
Researchers from UM’s Max Rady College of Medicine and Seven Oaks General Hospital’s Center for Chronic Disease Innovation collaborated on data studies and recently American Heart Association Journal.
Many of the same researchers worked on a related study in 2021 showing that membership in a certified medical fitness facility like a Wellness Institute is associated with a reduced risk of all-cause mortality and hospitalization.
“This time, we focused on cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of hospitalization, disability and death around the world,” said the study’s principal investigator, UM University. said Dr. David Collister, assistant professor of internal medicine.
“We wanted to find out whether attending a medical fitness facility was associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular events in adults. We also wanted to find out whether attending a medical fitness facility is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular events in adults. Also, whether attending a facility more frequently makes a difference in this risk. I also wanted to check.”
The Wellness Institute is a nonprofit medical fitness facility offering a wide range of health, wellness, and disease rehabilitation programs. It is one of two such facilities in Winnipeg, along with the Reh-Fit Center.
These facilities incorporate more medical supervision, education, and guidance than traditional fitness centers. Members have access to a variety of forms of individual and group fitness training.
Members also receive personalized health assessments, health plans, education and coaching on other aspects of a healthy lifestyle, such as nutrition and chronic disease management.
The retrospective study examined 10 years of de-identified health data from 2005 to 2015 and included approximately 11,000 new adult members of the Wellness Institute who had never experienced a major adverse cardiovascular event. The focus was on people.
The study compared the incidence of heart attack, stroke, or heart failure in this membership group to that in a matched control group of more than 500,000 Winnipeggers who were not members of the facility.
Researchers hope to accomplish this by using de-identified personal health identification numbers for members and non-members to track them within a health database housed at the UM Manitoba Health Policy Center. It’s done.
Researchers were able to track the attendance patterns of Wellness Institute members because members scanned their membership cards every time they entered the facility.
The study found that compared to non-members, members had a 12 percent lower risk of serious adverse cardiac events. We found that attending more frequently (more than once a week) was associated with a 23 percent lower risk compared to non-members.
The research team concluded that making medical fitness facilities available to more people, especially those at risk of cardiovascular disease, should be considered as a public health strategy.
“Our study highlights that medical fitness facilities can be used to prevent cardiovascular disease in the general population,” Collister said. “More work is needed to demonstrate to governments that this is a cost-effective strategy.”
