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Physical Activity as a Determinant of Successful Aging over Ten Years
- Source :
- Scientific Reports, Scientific Reports, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-5 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- We aimed to examine the temporal association between physical activity and successful aging. The analyses involved 1,584 adults aged 49 + years living west of Sydney (Australia), who did not have cancer, coronary artery disease and stroke at baseline and who were followed over 10 years. Participants provided information on the performance of moderate or vigorous activities and walking exercise and this was used to determine total metabolic equivalents (METs) minutes of activity per week. Successful aging status was determined through interviewer-administered questionnaire and was classified as the absence of: depressive symptoms, disability, cognitive impairment, respiratory symptoms and systemic conditions (e.g. cancer, coronary artery disease). 249 (15.7%) participants (mean age 59.9 ± 6.1) had aged successfully 10 years later. After multivariable adjustment; older adults in the highest level of total physical activity (≥5000 MET minutes/week; n = 71) compared to those in the lowest level of total physical activity (
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Aging
lcsh:Medicine
Metabolic equivalent
Article
Coronary artery disease
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Internal medicine
Epidemiology
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Healthy Lifestyle
lcsh:Science
Stroke
Exercise
Aged
Geriatrics
Multidisciplinary
Successful aging
business.industry
lcsh:R
Australia
Odds ratio
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Confidence interval
lcsh:Q
Female
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Details
- ISSN :
- 20452322
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scientific reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dee0032316ea6eacc4b0f0a0a8dbdb9b