Twenty-Year Trajectories of Physical Activity Types from Midlife to Old Age.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Correlates of physical activity (PA) vary according to type. However, predictors of long-term patterns of PA types into old age are unknown. This study aimed to identify 20-yr trajectories of PA types into old age and their predictors.

Methods

Seven thousand seven hundred thirty-five men (age, 40-59 yr) recruited from UK towns in 1978 to 1980 were followed up after 12, 16, and 20 yr. Men reported participation in sport/exercise, recreational activity and walking, health status, lifestyle behaviors and socio-demographic characteristics. Group-based trajectory modeling identified the trajectories of PA types and associations with time-stable and time-varying covariates.

Results

Men with ≥3 measures of sport/exercise (n = 5116), recreational activity (n = 5085) a

SUBMITTER: Aggio D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6354913 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature