The impact of physical activity on healthy ageing trajectories: evidence from eight cohort studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research has suggested the positive impact of physical activity on health and wellbeing in older age, yet few studies have investigated the associations between physical activity and heterogeneous trajectories of healthy ageing. We aimed to identify how physical activity can influence healthy ageing trajectories using a harmonised dataset of eight ageing cohorts across the world.

Methods

Based on a harmonised dataset of eight ageing cohorts in Australia, USA, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, and Europe, comprising 130,521 older adults (M_age = 62.81, SD_age = 10.06) followed-up up to 10 years (M_follow-up = 5.47, SD_follow-up = 3.22), we employed growth mixture modelling to identify latent classes of people with different traject

SUBMITTER: Moreno-Agostino D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7364650 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature