Finnish research team analyzes everyday life… Awareness of the risk of heart disease and diabetes
A new study finds an estimate of how much sleep increases and decreases in physical activity on average following retirement.
A research team at the University of Turku, Finland, analyzed the movements of 551 public sector workers with a wrist-worn device (accelerometer) for one week before and one week following retirement as part of the ‘Retirement and Aging Study (FIREA)’. The average age of the participants was 63.2 years and 86% were female. 65% of women and 68% of men worked as non-physical workers before retirement. The study found that when they retired, they slept significantly more, spent more sedentary time, and engaged in significantly less physical activity of any intensity. In particular, it was found that the average time spent on physical activity, such as exercise, decreased by regarding 81 minutes.
Lead author of the study, Dr Christine Suorsa (postdoctoral researcher) at the University of Turku, Finland, said: “Switching from moderate or vigorous pre-retirement physical activity to significantly less or lighter physical activity following retirement may increase the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes It goes up,” he said.
The study found that, on average, pre-retirement women slept regarding 8 hours a day, sat for regarding 11 hours a day, engaged in light physical activity for regarding 4 hours, and engaged in moderate or vigorous activity for regarding 50 minutes. Before retirement, men slept regarding 16 minutes less, sat for regarding an hour more, and did regarding 46 minutes less light physical activity than women. The amount of time men spent on moderate or vigorous levels of physical activity was similar to that of women. Physical workers, both male and female, tended to spend less sedentary time and be more physically active than non-physical workers.
After retirement, women spent 45 minutes more sleep and 36 minutes more sedentary, respectively, while they spent 64 minutes less on light physical activity and 17 minutes less on moderate or vigorous activity. appear. There were no significant differences between physical and non-physical occupations. Men who retired from physical work tended to spend more time sleeping and sedentary following retirement, and men who retired from non-physical work tended to sleep more.
“Retired people should aim to increase the amount of physical activity, especially at moderate to vigorous levels, avoid prolonged sitting, walk frequently and get plenty of rest,” the research team said. The Finnish Retirement and Aging Study was launched in 2013 to study changes in lifestyle, health and functional abilities of retirees. The results of this study analyzed movements just before and following retirement, so additional research is needed on changes in time following retirement.
The findings of this study (Changes in the 24-h movement behaviors during the transition to retirement: compositional data analysis) were published online in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity and were published in the American Health It was introduced by the media ‘Health Day’.
