Accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary behavior in nonagenarians: Associations with self-reported physical activity, anthropometric, sociodemographic, health and cognitive characteristics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research on device-based physical activity in the oldest-old adults is scarce. We examined accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary behavior in nonagenarians. We also investigated how the accelerometer characteristics associate with nonagenarians' self-reported physical activity, anthropometric, sociodemographic, health and cognitive characteristics.

Methods

Nonagenarians from a population-based cohort study (N = 38, mean age 91.2) used accelerometers during the waking hours for seven days. They also participated in a health survey and cognitive telephone interview. The Wald test and Pearson and polyserial correlations were used to analyze the data.

Results

The participants' average day consisted of 2931 steps, 11 minutes of moderate-to-vigoro

SUBMITTER: Aaltonen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10699641 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature