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Physical Activity as a Determinant of Successful Aging over Ten Years

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, July 2018
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Title
Physical Activity as a Determinant of Successful Aging over Ten Years
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Scientific Reports, July 2018
DOI 10.1038/s41598-018-28526-3
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Bamini Gopinath, Annette Kifley, Victoria M. Flood, Paul Mitchell

Abstract

We aimed to examine the temporal association between physical activity and successful aging. The analyses involved 1,584 adults aged 49 + years living west of Sydney (Australia), who did not have cancer, coronary artery disease and stroke at baseline and who were followed over 10 years. Participants provided information on the performance of moderate or vigorous activities and walking exercise and this was used to determine total metabolic equivalents (METs) minutes of activity per week. Successful aging status was determined through interviewer-administered questionnaire and was classified as the absence of: depressive symptoms, disability, cognitive impairment, respiratory symptoms and systemic conditions (e.g. cancer, coronary artery disease). 249 (15.7%) participants (mean age 59.9 ± 6.1) had aged successfully 10 years later. After multivariable adjustment; older adults in the highest level of total physical activity (≥5000 MET minutes/week; n = 71) compared to those in the lowest level of total physical activity (<1000 MET minutes/week; n = 934) had 2-fold greater odds of aging successfully than normal aging, odds ratio, OR, 2.08 (95% confidence intervals, CI, 1.12-3.88). Older adults who engaged in high levels of total physical activity, well above the current recommended minimum level had a greater likelihood of aging successfully 10 years later.

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Unknown 245 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 39 16%
Student > Bachelor 29 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 9%
Researcher 14 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 4%
Other 42 17%
Unknown 87 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 35 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 25 10%
Sports and Recreations 22 9%
Psychology 14 6%
Neuroscience 9 4%
Other 32 13%
Unknown 108 44%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 395. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 June 2022.
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#77,370
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#1,047
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#1,592
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#24
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