Abstract
Background
A physically active lifestyle is recognized as a precondition of healthy aging. However, the majority of studies exploring its association with mortality in cohorts of adults used single-time physical activity (PA) estimate, which do not consider its dynamic nature with changes that occur with aging. The aim of the present study is to explore the presence of different PA trajectories in a population-based cohort and their association with mortality.
Methods
We used data of the population-based cohort study CARLA and included 1041 older adults (45–83 years at baseline) with self-reported physical activity at baseline (2002–2006), first follow-up (2007–2010) and second follow-up (2013). Trajectories were identified using growth mixture modelling. Cox proportional hazard models were used to assess the association between trajectories of PA and all-cause mortality during ~6 years since the second follow-up after adjusting for age, sex, lifestyle factors and comorbidities and after correction for classification error. In a sensitivity analysis we weighted the models to account for selection bias during follow-up. As a further sensitivity analysis, we excluded the first year of follow-up to account for reverse causation.
Results
Three PA trajectories (categorized as consistently low, consistently moderate, and high at baseline but strongly decreasing PA across time) were identified, and 121 deaths due to all causes occurred. Compared with participants who had consistently low PA-levels throughout the follow-up period, participants who maintained moderate PA-levels were at a lower risk of all-cause mortality (hazard ratio [HR], 0.49; 95%CI, 0.30–0.70). Participants with high PA-levels at baseline but strongly decreasing PA across time, had similar mortality risk compared to the participants with consistently low PA-levels (hazard ratio [HR], 0.97; 95%CI, 0.50–1.80). The effects were strengthened in the analysis weighted for selection bias.
Conclusions
Our results suggest that, compared to those who had consistently low PA levels, those who maintained a moderate level of PA showed a protective effect in terms of their mortality risk but not those who displayed a decline from high PA levels.
Funder
European Regional Development Fund
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Wilhelm-Roux-Program of the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg
Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs of Saxony-Anhalt
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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