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Objective measurements of daily physical activity patterns and sedentary behaviour in older adults
— Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study | | Author(s) | Nanna Yr Arnardottir, Annemarie Koster, Dane R van Domelen |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 42, no 2, March 2013 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, March 2013 |
| Pages | pp 222-229 |
| Source | www.ageing.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Physical capacity ; Activities of older people ; Exercise ; Inactivity ; Measurement ; Evaluation ; Iceland. |
| Annotation | Objectively measured population physical activity (PA) data from older persons is lacking. The aim of this study was to describe free-living PA patterns and sedentary behaviours in Icelandic older men and women using an accelerometer. From April 2009 through to June 2010, 579 study participants aged 73_98 years wore an accelerometer (Actigraph GT3X) at the right hip for one complete week in the free-living settings. In all subjects, sedentary time was the largest component of the total wear time, 75%, followed by low-light PA, 21%. Moderate-vigorous PA (MVPA) was less than1%. Men had slightly higher average total PA compared with women. The women spent more time in low-light PA but less time in sedentary PA and MVPA compared with men. In persons below 75 years of age, 60% of men and 34% of women had at least one bout of MVPA lasting 10 minutes or more, which decreased with age, with only 25% of men and 9% of women 85 years and older reaching this. The study concluded that sedentary time was high in this Icelandic cohort, which had high life-expectancy and living north of 60° northern latitude. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130308228 A |
| Classmark | BI: G: CEA: C5: 3R: 4C: 76R |
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