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Chronic disease and lifestyle transitions
— results from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam | | Author(s) | Coen H van Gool, Gertrudis I J M Kempen, Brenda W J H Penninx |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 19, no 3, June 2007 |
| Pages | pp 416-438 |
| Source | http://www.sagepublications.com |
| Keywords | Chronic illness ; Health [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Transitional phase ; Middle aged ; Age groups [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | Differences in unhealthy lifestyle - smoking, excessive alcohol use, being sedentary - were examined, along with transitions herein after 6 years in prevalent and incident chronic disease categories - lung and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and osteoarthritis and/or rheumatic arthritis - among 2184 respondents aged 55+ from the Netherlands. The authors also examined if transitions in lifestyle co-occurred with changes in disease-related symptomatology. Proportions of respondents who smoked decreased over time, whereas proportions of those who were sedentary increased. Respondents with incident cardiovascular disease demonstrated more lifestyle transitions than respondents from other disease categories. Respondents demonstrating healthy lifestyle transitions did not differ from those persisting in unhealthy lifestyles in change in disease-related symptoms. Health promotion may benefit from these findings in a way that patient groups at risk for not initiating healthy lifestyles might be identified sooner. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071126210 A |
| Classmark | CI: CC: F: 4MT: SE: BB: 3J: 76H |
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