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Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity and All-Cause Mortality: Do Bouts Matter?

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Saint-Maurice, PF; Troiano, RP; Matthews, CE; Kraus, WE
Published in: J Am Heart Assoc
March 22, 2018

BACKGROUND: The 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans recommends that adults accumulate moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in bouts of ≥10 minutes for substantial health benefits. To what extent the same amount of MVPA accumulated in bouts versus sporadically reduces mortality risk remains unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS: We analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003-2006 and death records available through 2011 (follow-up period of ≈6.6 years; 700 deaths) to examine the associations between objectively measured physical activity accumulated with and without a bout criteria and all-cause mortality in a representative sample of US adults 40 years and older (n=4840). Physical activity data were processed to generate minutes per day of total and bouted MVPA. Bouted MVPA was defined as MVPA accumulated in bouts of a minimum duration of either 5 or 10 minutes allowing for 1- to 2-minute interruptions. Hazard ratios for all-cause mortality associated with total and bouted MVPA were similar and ranged from 0.24 for the third quartile of total to 0.44 for the second quartile of 10-minute bouts. The examination of jointly classified quartiles of total MVPA and tertiles of proportion of bouted activity revealed that greater amounts of bouted MVPA did not result in additional risk reductions for mortality. CONCLUSIONS: These results provide evidence that mortality risk reductions associated with MVPA are independent of how activity is accumulated and can impact the development of physical activity guidelines and inform clinical practice.

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J Am Heart Assoc

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2047-9980

Publication Date

March 22, 2018

Volume

7

Issue

6

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Time Factors
  • Risk Reduction Behavior
  • Risk Factors
  • Risk Assessment
  • Protective Factors
  • Prospective Studies
  • Physical Exertion
  • Nutrition Surveys
  • Male
 

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Saint-Maurice, P. F., Troiano, R. P., Matthews, C. E., & Kraus, W. E. (2018). Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity and All-Cause Mortality: Do Bouts Matter? J Am Heart Assoc, 7(6). https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.117.007678
Saint-Maurice, Pedro F., Richard P. Troiano, Charles E. Matthews, and William E. Kraus. “Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity and All-Cause Mortality: Do Bouts Matter?J Am Heart Assoc 7, no. 6 (March 22, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.117.007678.
Saint-Maurice PF, Troiano RP, Matthews CE, Kraus WE. Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity and All-Cause Mortality: Do Bouts Matter? J Am Heart Assoc. 2018 Mar 22;7(6).
Saint-Maurice, Pedro F., et al. “Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity and All-Cause Mortality: Do Bouts Matter?J Am Heart Assoc, vol. 7, no. 6, Mar. 2018. Pubmed, doi:10.1161/JAHA.117.007678.
Saint-Maurice PF, Troiano RP, Matthews CE, Kraus WE. Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity and All-Cause Mortality: Do Bouts Matter? J Am Heart Assoc. 2018 Mar 22;7(6).
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Published In

J Am Heart Assoc

DOI

EISSN

2047-9980

Publication Date

March 22, 2018

Volume

7

Issue

6

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Time Factors
  • Risk Reduction Behavior
  • Risk Factors
  • Risk Assessment
  • Protective Factors
  • Prospective Studies
  • Physical Exertion
  • Nutrition Surveys
  • Male