2016
DOI: 10.1177/1403494816680795
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Self-reported visual impairment, physical activity and all-cause mortality: The HUNT Study

Abstract: Printed by NTNU Grafisk senter i Sammendrag på norskFysisk aktivitet, mental helse og dødelighet hos personer med synsnedsettelse: Resultater fra HUNT-studien Å fremme fysisk aktivitet i befolkningen er ansett som en av de beste strategiene for folkehelsen grunnet dens gunstige effekter på mental helse, samt i forebygging av ikke-smittsomme sykdommer og tidlig død. Allikevel, fordelene av regelmessig fysisk aktivitet kan variere mellom ulike grupper i befolkningen. Personer som lever med synstap opplever ofter… Show more

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“…That study, however, did not discriminate between difficulties in distance and near visual tasks ( 20 ). Other countries show similar VI rates: the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study showed a prevalence of self-reported VI in 17.0% in Norwegians ( 21 ) having surveyed longstanding impairments of at least 1 year. In the US, a point prevalence of 9.7% of functional VI was reported in 2010.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 89%
“…That study, however, did not discriminate between difficulties in distance and near visual tasks ( 20 ). Other countries show similar VI rates: the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study showed a prevalence of self-reported VI in 17.0% in Norwegians ( 21 ) having surveyed longstanding impairments of at least 1 year. In the US, a point prevalence of 9.7% of functional VI was reported in 2010.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 89%
“…We assumed a causal pathway for the association between visual impairment and mortality as depicted in Figure 1, based on previous studies [5,6,7,8,9,12,13,14,19,20,21,22], to assess the independent association by identifying potential confounders and mediators. In brief, we selected older age, systematic diseases and conditions (body mass index, waist circumference, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, serum levels of fasting glucose, creatinine, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, and gamma glutamyltransferase, and history of stroke, heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, and other diseases including cancer), income, residing area, and lifestyle factors (smoking status and alcohol consumption) as potential confounders, which could affect both visual function and mortality and possibly bias the results.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…After identifying the potential confounders, we adjusted them in further analyses. We did not adjust for physical activity in the main models because physical activity may mediate the association between visual function and mortality partially (Figure 1) [5,19,21] and the association between visual impairment and mortality could be underestimated when adjusting for physical activity. Detailed information on selected covariates is presented in the Supplementary Material.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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