2023-07-05 06:30:56
As the amount of time spent sitting increases, the quality of life decreases.
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More physical activity can reduce pain from conditions like osteoarthritis and improve muscle strength so you can continue to take care of yourself as you age. [사진= 게티이미지뱅크]After the age of 60, it is desirable to pay more attention to activities that move the body. A new study finds that for older adults, less time spent being physically active is associated with a lower quality of life. The same goes for increased sitting time, such as watching TV or reading.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge in England investigated the activity levels of 1,433 adults over the age of 60. They were recruited from the European Cancer Prospects Survey (EPIC)-Norfolk study.
The researchers also looked at health-related quality of life, a measure of health and well-being, including pain, ability to care for oneself, and anxiety/mood. Participants scored between 0 (lowest quality of life) and 1 (highest) according to their responses to the questionnaire. A low quality of life score is associated with an increased risk of hospitalization, worse outcomes following hospitalization, and premature death.
A follow-up was conducted following an average of six years to examine changes in the behavior and quality of life of the participants. Six years following the first assessment, both men and women had reduced moderate to vigorous physical activity by an average of regarding 24 minutes per day. The amount of time spent sitting at the same time increased by an average of 33 minutes per day for men and 38 minutes per day for women.
People who did more moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and less sedentary time on the initial assessment had a higher quality of life later on. An extra hour of activity per day was associated with a 0.02 higher quality of life score.
On the six-year follow-up, for every one-minute decrease in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity per day, the quality of life score dropped by 0.03 points. This means that those who participated in physical activity for less than 15 minutes a day dropped their score by 0.45. Increased sitting time was also associated with a decrease in quality of life. Six years following the first measurement, each increase in sitting time by one minute per day decreased the mean quality of life score by 0.012 points.
Putting the results in a clinical context, a 0.1-point increase in quality of life score was associated with a 6.9% reduction in premature death and a 4.2% reduction in the risk of hospitalization.
“Staying physically active and limiting sedentary time is very important at any stage of life, but appears to be even more important later in life,” said Dharani Jerakalva, a professor of public health at the University of Cambridge.
“Improving physical behavior can help maintain a better quality of life in many ways,” he says. “For example, more physical activity can reduce pain in conditions like osteoarthritis and increase muscle strength. It improves them so they can continue to take care of themselves as they get older.” “Depression and anxiety are also associated with quality of life, and can be improved by being more active and less sedentary,” he added.
The study was published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes.
원제는 ‘Associations between change in physical activity and sedentary time and health-related quality of life in older english adults: the EPIC-Norfolk cohort study’.
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