Sedentary Behavior and Incident Dementia Among Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Sedentary behavior is associated with cardiometabolic disease and mortality, but its association with dementia is unclear.

Objective

To investigate whether accelerometer-assessed sedentary behavior is associated with incident dementia.

Design, setting, and participants

A retrospective study of prospectively collected data from the UK Biobank including 49 841 adults aged 60 years or older without a diagnosis of dementia at the time of wearing the wrist accelerometer and living in England, Scotland, or Wales. Follow-up began at the time of wearing the accelerometer (February 2013 to December 2015) and continued until September 2021 in England, July 2021 in Scotland, and February 2018 in Wales.

Exposures

Mean daily sedentary behavior time (included in t

SUBMITTER: Raichlen DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10498332 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature