Objective measurements of daily physical activity patterns and sedentary behaviour in older adults: Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study

Nanna Yr Arnardottir; Annemarie Koster; Dane Van Domelen; Robert J. Brychta; Paolo Caserotti; Gudny Eiriksdottir; Johanna Eyrun Sverrisdottir; Lenore J. Launer; Vilmundur Gudnason; Erlingur Johannsson; Tamara B. Harris; Kong Y. Chen; Thorarinn Sveinsson

doi:10.1093/ageing/afs160

Objective measurements of daily physical activity patterns and sedentary behaviour in older adults: Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study

Nanna Yr Arnardottir, Annemarie Koster, Dane Van Domelen, Robert J. Brychta, Paolo Caserotti, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Johanna Eyrun Sverrisdottir, Lenore J. Launer, Vilmundur Gudnason, Erlingur Johannsson, Tamara B. Harris, Kong Y. Chen, Thorarinn Sveinsson

University of Iceland

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Background: 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 accelerometer.Methods: from April 2009 to June 2010, 579 AGESII-study participants aged 73-98 years wore an accelerometer (Actigraph GT3X) at the right hip for one complete week in the free-living settings. Results: 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 <1%. Men had slightly higher average total PA (counts × day-1) than women. The women spent more time in low-light PA but less time in sedentary PA and MVPA compared with men (P<0.001). In persons <75 years of age, 60% of men and 34% of women had at least one bout =10 min of MVPA, which decreased with age, with only 25% of men and 9% of women 85 years and older reaching this. Conclusion: sedentary time is high in this Icelandic cohort, which has high life-expectancy and is living north of 60° northern latitude.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	222-229
Number of pages	8
Journal	Age and Ageing
Volume	42
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afs160
Publication status	Published - Mar 2013

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Funding Information: This study has been funded by NIH contract N01-AG-1-2100, the NIA Intramural Research Program, Hjartavernd (the Icelandic Heart Association), and the Althingi (the Icelandic Parliament). This study was also supported by National Institutes of Health Intramural Research Program, grant number: Z01 DK071013 and Z01 DK071014 to R.J.B. and K.Y.C. The researchers are indebted to the participants for their willingness to participate in the study.

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AGES-Reykjavik
Accelerometry
BMI
Older adults
Older people
Physical activity
Sedentary behaviour

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Arnardottir, N. Y., Koster, A., Domelen, D. V., Brychta, R. J., Caserotti, P., Eiriksdottir, G., Sverrisdottir, J. E., Launer, L. J., Gudnason, V., Johannsson, E., Harris, T. B., Chen, K. Y., & Sveinsson, T. (2013). Objective measurements of daily physical activity patterns and sedentary behaviour in older adults: Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study. Age and Ageing, 42(2), 222-229. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afs160

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Objective measurements of daily physical activity patterns and sedentary behaviour in older adults: Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study

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