Healthy Physical Behaviors for Cardiovascular Diseases: Towards Refined Measurement Methods, Epidemiologic Data, and Promotion Strategies

Dear Colleagues, 

Physical behaviors (physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep) play a substantial role in overall and cardiovascular health (Tsao et al., 2022). As a result, significant research efforts are continuously focused on improving measurement methods and promotion strategies for healthy physical behaviors. Various metrics from activity monitors can now be applied to characterize physical behaviors, enhancing our understanding of their relationships with health (Backes et al., 2021). It is also known that several levels of intervention (e.g., individual, community, see PAGAC, 2018) are conducive to encouraging physical behavior changes. However, for artery diseases, additional research efforts seem to be required to obtain data related to refined behavior measurement methods and promotion strategies. Guidelines for managing some families of artery diseases (e.g., Gerhard-Herman et al., 2017) still essentially focus on walking behavior in order to improve walking capacity. No information is available on what daily composition of physical behaviors should be recommended for the optimization of artery and overall health, nor on what strategies could be implemented to favor the adoption of healthy physical behavior, in particular for patients with chronic pain symptoms. With this in mind, papers considering the following topics in relation to artery diseases are welcome for this Special Issue:

• New methods for measuring physical behaviors, in particular for recognizing activity types and estimating behavior intensity;
• Characterization of physical behavior patterns and their relationships with the physical environment and/or health;
• Effects of interventions targeting healthier physical behaviors, using either exercise-based programs or other frameworks (e.g., learning how to cope with pain during walking).

Prof. Dr. Pierre-Yves De Müllenheim
Dr. Véronique Cornelissen
Guest Editors

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