Stability and prediction of physical activity in 5‐, 10‐, and 28‐year follow‐up studies among industrial employees

Kirjonen, Juhani; Telama, R.; Luukkonen, Ritva; Kääriä, Sanna; Kaila-Kangas, Leena; Leino-Arjas, Päivi

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0838.2005.00476.x

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“…Although, among men, the results of the unadjusted model for the age category 12-19 years ported have been only low or moderate 5) . In another study, the correlation between the time points studied was found to weaken over time 13) . Only a few studies have examined whether physical activity in early life tracks to an older age.…”

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Regular exercise history as a predictor of exercise in community-dwelling older Japanese people

Kozakai

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A physically active lifestyle is important across the entire life span. However, little is known about life-long participation in regular exercise among older people. The purpose of the present study was to describe regular exercise throughout a person's lifetime and evaluate the impact of exercise earlier in life on participation in exercise at age 60 and over. The participants were 984 community-dwelling older people aged 60 to 86 years. Each participant's life was divided into five age categories: 12-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-59, and 60 years and over. The association between exercise at an earlier age and that at 60 years and over was assessed using logistic regression analysis adjusted for potential confounders. Men had exercised throughout their lives more than women. Among women, participation in exercise during their 20s and 30s showed a sharp decline. The preference for exercise differed according to age and gender. Among men, the most common patterns of exercise throughout life were exercise during all the age categories, and starting exercise at age 60 and over; whereas in women the most common pattern was no exercise at all. The adjusted odds ratio of exercise at 40-59 years for exercise at age 60 and over was 5.85 (95% confidence interval: 3.82-8.96) among men and 6.89 (4.23-11.23) among women. Regular exercise in the younger age categories affected exercise at age 60 and over among men, but not among women. Regular exercise at 40-59 years was a strong predictor of exercise at 60 years and over in both men and women.

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Regular exercise history as a predictor of exercise in community-dwelling older Japanese people

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“…The correlations for comparable age groups in a Finnish study over 9 years were 0.61 for male and 0.31 for female participants from age 18 to 27 and 0.58 and 0.51 from age 21 to 30, respectively [27]. In another Finnish study, stability over 5 years in 18-to 64-year-olds was 0.46 and 0.34 for male and for female subjects, and stability over 10 years was 0.25 and 0.29, respectively [28]. The 4-year tracking correlation in an American study from age 25 to 29 was 0.21 for both sexes [29], and another American study showed a correlation of 0.30 in a follow-up of female participants from age 31 to 38 [30].…”

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Tracking of Physical Activity from Childhood to Adulthood: A Review

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The aim of the article was to review studies on the tracking of physical activity in all phases of life from childhood to late adulthood. The majority of the studies have been published since 2000. The follow-up time in most studies was short, the median being 9 years. In men, the stability of physical activity was significant but low or moderate during all life phases and also in longterm follow-ups. In women, the tracking was lower and in many cases non-significant. Among both sexes, stability seems to be lower in early childhood than in adolescence or in adulthood and lower in transitional phases, such as from childhood to adolescence or from adolescence to adulthood, than in adulthood. However, the differences in the stability of physical activity between age groups and between different phases of life were small. The number of tracking studies utilising objective methods to measure physical activity was so small that systematic differences in stability between self-report and objective methods could not be determined. A factor which caused differences in tracking results was the adjustment of correlations for measurement error and other error variance. Adjusted coefficients were clearly higher than unadjusted ones. However, adjustment was done only in very few studies. If the different methods used for estimating habitual physical activity and the failure to control for important covariates in studies of tracking are taken into account, physical activity appears to track reasonably well also in the longer term, for example from adolescence to adulthood. The results of the tracking studies support the idea that the enhancement of physical activity in children and adolescents is of great importance for the promotion of public health.

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“…The two methods gave highly similar results [8]. All subjects at baseline underwent the assessment of LTPA.…”

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“…It was, however, an indirect measurement based on self-report and thus subject to recall bias. Strenuous LTPA tracked rather well in follow-ups of the sample [8]. Regardless of the rather small study sample a clear inverse association between strenuous LTPA and backrelated hospitalizations.…”

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“…Interviewers (students of sport science) trained for the purpose assessed LTPA using a 51-item check-list, which included both leisure time and household activities typical for urban Finnish adults [8]. During a 20 min interview the examinees were asked about the type, frequency, duration, and intensity of each LTPA in which the subjects had participated during the past year.…”

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Does strenuous leisure time physical activity prevent severe back disorders leading to hospitalization?

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Study design Prospective cohort study. Objective To study the associations between strenuous leisure time physical activity (LTPA) and subsequent hospitalization due to back disorders. Summary of background data Socioeconomic and lifestyle factors are associated with back-related hospitalization, but the significance of strenuous LTPA in the working population is unclear. Methods The cohort (n = 902) was drawn from among employees in the metal industry (n = 2,653). Data were collected by a questionnaire and a structured interview on LTPA. Activity regarding strenuous ([500 kcal/h) LTPA was categorized as none, some, and high. Information from national registers on hospitalizations and deaths during 28 years of follow-up was linked to the data. Cox proportional hazards regression was used. Results Subjects with a high level of strenuous LTPA had a decreased risk of hospitalization due to back disorders (hazard ratio 0.40; 95 % CI 0.21-0.79) compared with persons with no strenuous activity, after adjustment for age and gender. The association persisted (0.48; 0.24-0.96) when further adjusted for occupational class, self-reported back diseases, smoking, and body mass index at baseline.Conclusion Strenuous LTPA decreased the risk of inpatient hospital care for back disorders among industrial employees.

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Stability and prediction of physical activity in 5‐, 10‐, and 28‐year follow‐up studies among industrial employees

Cited by 20 publications

References 23 publications

Regular exercise history as a predictor of exercise in community-dwelling older Japanese people

Regular exercise history as a predictor of exercise in community-dwelling older Japanese people

Tracking of Physical Activity from Childhood to Adulthood: A Review

Does strenuous leisure time physical activity prevent severe back disorders leading to hospitalization?

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