Association of moderate and vigorous physical activity with incidence of type 2 diabetes and subsequent mortality: 27 year follow-up of the Whitehall II study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims/hypothesis

This work examined the role of physical activity in the course of diabetes using data spanning nearly three decades. Our first aim was to examine the long-term association of moderate and vigorous physical activity with incidence of type 2 diabetes. Our second aim was to investigate the association of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity post-diabetes diagnosis with subsequent risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality.

Methods

A total of 9987 participants from the Whitehall II cohort study free of type 2 diabetes at baseline (1985-1988) were followed for incidence of type 2 diabetes, based on clinical assessments between 1985 and 2016 and linkage to electronic health records up to 31 March 2017. We first examined the association of moderate and

SUBMITTER: Yerramalla MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6997261 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature