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Cross-Sectional Associations of Active Transport, Employment Status and Objectively Measured Physical Activity: Analyses from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

BACKGROUND: To investigate associations between active transport, employment status and objectively measured moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in a representative sample of US adults. METHODS: Cross-sectional analyses of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. A t...

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Autores principales: Yang, Lin, Hu, Liang, Hipp, J. Aaron, Imm, Kellie R., Schutte, Rudolph, Stubbs, Brendon, Colditz, Graham A., Smith, Lee
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6086741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29730607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-210265
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author Yang, Lin
Hu, Liang
Hipp, J. Aaron
Imm, Kellie R.
Schutte, Rudolph
Stubbs, Brendon
Colditz, Graham A.
Smith, Lee
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Hu, Liang
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description BACKGROUND: To investigate associations between active transport, employment status and objectively measured moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in a representative sample of US adults. METHODS: Cross-sectional analyses of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. A total of 5180 adults (50.2 years old, 49.0% men) were classified by levels of active transportation and employment status. Outcome measure was weekly time spent in MVPA as recorded by the Actigraph accelerometer. Associations between active transport, employment status and objectively measured MVPA were examined using multivariable linear regression models adjusted for age, BMI, race and ethnicity, education level, marital status, smoking status, working hour duration (among the employed only), and self-reported leisure time physical activity. RESULTS: Patterns of active transport were similar between the employed (n=2,897) and unemployed (n=2,283), such that 76.0% employed and 77.5% unemployed engaged in no active transport. For employed adults, those engaging in high levels of active transport (≥90 min/week) had higher amount of MVPA than those who did not engage in active transport. This translated to 40.8 (95% CI: 15.7, 65.9) additional minutes MVPA per week in men and 57.9 (95% CI: 32.1, 83.7) additional minutes MVPA per week in women. Among the unemployed adults, higher levels of active transport were associated with more MVPA among men (44.8 min/week MVPA, 95% CI: 9.2, 80.5), only. CONCLUSIONS: Findings from the present study support interventions to promote active transport to increase population level physical activity. Additional strategies are likely required to promote physical activity among unemployed women.
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spelling pubmed-60867412019-09-01 Cross-Sectional Associations of Active Transport, Employment Status and Objectively Measured Physical Activity: Analyses from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Yang, Lin Hu, Liang Hipp, J. Aaron Imm, Kellie R. Schutte, Rudolph Stubbs, Brendon Colditz, Graham A. Smith, Lee J Epidemiol Community Health Article BACKGROUND: To investigate associations between active transport, employment status and objectively measured moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in a representative sample of US adults. METHODS: Cross-sectional analyses of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. A total of 5180 adults (50.2 years old, 49.0% men) were classified by levels of active transportation and employment status. Outcome measure was weekly time spent in MVPA as recorded by the Actigraph accelerometer. Associations between active transport, employment status and objectively measured MVPA were examined using multivariable linear regression models adjusted for age, BMI, race and ethnicity, education level, marital status, smoking status, working hour duration (among the employed only), and self-reported leisure time physical activity. RESULTS: Patterns of active transport were similar between the employed (n=2,897) and unemployed (n=2,283), such that 76.0% employed and 77.5% unemployed engaged in no active transport. For employed adults, those engaging in high levels of active transport (≥90 min/week) had higher amount of MVPA than those who did not engage in active transport. This translated to 40.8 (95% CI: 15.7, 65.9) additional minutes MVPA per week in men and 57.9 (95% CI: 32.1, 83.7) additional minutes MVPA per week in women. Among the unemployed adults, higher levels of active transport were associated with more MVPA among men (44.8 min/week MVPA, 95% CI: 9.2, 80.5), only. CONCLUSIONS: Findings from the present study support interventions to promote active transport to increase population level physical activity. Additional strategies are likely required to promote physical activity among unemployed women. 2018-05-05 2018-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6086741/ /pubmed/29730607 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-210265 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Exclusive Licence: The Corresponding Author has the right to grant on behalf of all authors and does grant on behalf of all authors, an exclusive licence (or non-exclusive for government employees) on a worldwide basis to the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and its Licensees to permit this article (if accepted) to be published in JECH editions and any other BMJPGL products to exploit all subsidiary rights, as set out in our licence. (http://group.bmj.com/products/journals/instructions-for-authors/licence-forms/).
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Colditz, Graham A.
Smith, Lee
Cross-Sectional Associations of Active Transport, Employment Status and Objectively Measured Physical Activity: Analyses from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
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title_full_unstemmed Cross-Sectional Associations of Active Transport, Employment Status and Objectively Measured Physical Activity: Analyses from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
title_short Cross-Sectional Associations of Active Transport, Employment Status and Objectively Measured Physical Activity: Analyses from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6086741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29730607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-210265
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