Wearable-device-measured physical activity and future health risk.
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Authors
Jeon, Justin
Publication Date
2020-09Journal Title
Nat Med
ISSN
1078-8956
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Volume
26
Issue
9
Pages
1385-1391
Language
eng
Type
Article
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AM
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Print-Electronic
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Strain, T., Wijndaele, K., Dempsey, P. C., Sharp, S., Pearce, M., Jeon, J., Lindsay, T., et al. (2020). Wearable-device-measured physical activity and future health risk.. Nat Med, 26 (9), 1385-1391. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-1012-3
Abstract
Use of wearable devices that monitor physical activity is projected to increase more than fivefold per half-decade1. We investigated how device-based physical activity energy expenditure (PAEE) and different intensity profiles were associated with all-cause mortality. We used a network harmonization approach to map dominant-wrist acceleration to PAEE in 96,476 UK Biobank participants (mean age 62 years, 56% female). We also calculated the fraction of PAEE accumulated from moderate-to-vigorous-intensity physical activity (MVPA). Over the median 3.1-year follow-up period (302,526 person-years), 732 deaths were recorded. Higher PAEE was associated with a lower hazard of all-cause mortality for a constant fraction of MVPA (for example, 21% (95% confidence interval 4-35%) lower hazard for 20 versus 15 kJ kg-1 d-1 PAEE with 10% from MVPA). Similarly, a higher MVPA fraction was associated with a lower hazard when PAEE remained constant (for example, 30% (8-47%) lower hazard when 20% versus 10% of a fixed 15 kJ kg-1 d-1 PAEE volume was from MVPA). Our results show that higher volumes of PAEE are associated with reduced mortality rates, and achieving the same volume through higher-intensity activity is associated with greater reductions than through lower-intensity activity. The linkage of device-measured activity to energy expenditure creates a framework for using wearables for personalized prevention.
Keywords
Humans, Monitoring, Physiologic, Exercise, Mortality, Energy Metabolism, Middle Aged, Female, Male, Accelerometry, Wearable Electronic Devices
Sponsorship
TS, KW, SB, SJS, TL, PCD, MP, JJ and NJW are supported by the UK Medical Research Council (unit programme numbers MC_UU_12015/1 and MC_UU_12015/3). PCD is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia research fellowship (#1142685). TL is supported by Cambridge Trust and St Catharine’s College.
Funder references
Medical Research Council (MC_UU_12015/3)
Medical Research Council (MC_UU_12015/1)
MRC (MC_UU_00006/4)
Department of Health (via National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)) (NF-SI-0617-10149)
MRC (MC_UU_00006/1)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-1012-3
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/308030
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