Low physical activity as a predictor for total and cardiovascular disease mortality in middle-aged men and women in Finland

Abstract

Moderate and high levels of leisure time and occupational physical activity are associated with a reduced CVD and all-cause mortality among both sexes. Promoting already moderate levels of leisure time and occupational physical activity are essential to prevent premature CVD and all-cause mortality.

Impact of different domains of physical activity on cause-specific mortality: A longitudinal study

“…Analyses of the association between work-related physical activity and mortality provided conflicting results. They range from a protective effect (Autenrieth et al, 2011;Barengo et al, 2004;Samitz et al, 2011) to no effects (Besson et al, 2008) (in line with our results) to deleterious effects, at least in men (Herzig et al, 2012). Null findings between occupational physical activity and mortality may be due to residual confounding or the broad physical activity categorisation due to job type only.…”

“…In contrast to others (Andersen et al, 2000;Autenrieth et al, 2011;Barengo et al, 2004;Samitz et al, 2011), there were no effects of work-related and commuting activities on mortality. The promotion of physical activity offers large potential for health improvement and mortality reduction in the population.…”

“…However, only few studies have investigated the association between different domains of physical activity and allcause as well as cause-specific mortality, and the evidence is inconsistent (Andersen et al, 2000;Arrieta and Russell, 2008;Autenrieth et al, 2011;Barengo et al, 2004;Besson et al, 2008). Only few of the large cohort studies with data on physical activity and mortality have included women and relatively few deaths were observed, leaving uncertainty about the benefit of physical activity in women (Andersen et al, 2000).…”

“…Only few of the large cohort studies with data on physical activity and mortality have included women and relatively few deaths were observed, leaving uncertainty about the benefit of physical activity in women (Andersen et al, 2000). Therefore, it is appropriate to present the results of studies that also included women stratified by sex, as seen in other publications (Andersen et al, 2000;Barengo et al, 2004;Herzig et al, 2012).…”

Longitudinal relationships between occupational and domestic physical activity patterns and body weight in China

“…While some inverse associations have been reported between occupational activity and obesity and its associated sequelae (King et al, 2001;Barengo et al, 2004;Mummery et al, 2005), others have found no association (Ball et al, 2001;GutierrezFisac et al, 2002). The majority of this work investigates Model 2 also includes occupational activity as specified in Model 1, results did not substantially differ so are not shown above.…”