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| Effects of a 5-year exercise centered health-promoting programme on mortality and ADL impairment in the elderly | | Author(s) | Yukio Oida, Yoshinori Kitabatake, Yohko Nishijima |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 32, no 6, November 2003 |
| Pages | pp 585-592 |
| Keywords | Exercise ; Health [elderly] ; Preventative medicine ; Death ; Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Living in the community ; Longitudinal surveys ; Japan. |
| Annotation | Subjects were 245 Japanese people living at home. Of these, 56 men and 99 women (mean age 76) who voluntarily participated in the authors' original health promoting programme were regarded as an intervention group. The remaining 90 (29 men and 61 women (mean age 77) were regarded as a control group. The programme consisted of a collective session given every 2 months for 5 years, being a combination of an exercise programme based on theories of exercise physiology and a support programme based on health education theories. The relative risks of death and activity of daily living (ADL) impairment adjusted for age, presence or absence of cardiovascular or musculo-skeletal disorders, and functional fitness level at baseline were calculated using logistic regression analysis. Rates of participation compliance were 67% in the first year, and gradually decreased to 45.9% thereafter. For women, the percentage of those who exercised habitually at the end of the study was the same as that in the baseline in the intervention group but was significantly lower at the end of the study for those in the control group. The relative risk of death in the intervention group was 1.0 for men and 0.16 for women, while relative risk of ADL impairment was 0.22 for men and 0.36 for women. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-031217220 A |
| Classmark | CEA: CC: LK2: CW: C4: CA: K4: 3J: 7DT |
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