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Hartman, YAW, Karssemeijer, EGA, van Diepen, LAM, Olde Rikkert, MGM and Thijssen, DHJ (2018) Dementia Patients Are More Sedentary and Less Physically Active than Age- and Sex-Matched Cognitively Healthy Older Adults. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 46 (1-2). pp. 81-89. ISSN 1420-8008
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Abstract
AIMS: The aim of this study was to examine physical activity and sedentary behaviour characteristics of ambulatory and community-dwelling patients with dementia compared to cognitively healthy age-, sex- and weight-matched controls. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, we included community-dwelling dementia patients (n = 45, age 79.6 ± 5.9 years, Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE] 22.8 ± 3.2) and matched controls (n = 49, age 80.0 ± 7.7 years, MMSE 29.0 ± 1.2). Participants wore a wrist accelerometer for 7 days to assess sedentary time, sedentary bout duration and time spent in very light, light-to-moderate and moderate-to-vigorous physical activities. RESULTS: Relative sedentary time and sedentary bout duration was significantly higher in dementia patients than in controls (median [interquartile range] 57% [49-68] vs. 55% [47-59] and 18.3 [16.4-21.1] min vs. 16.6 [15.3-18.4] min, p = 0.042 and p = 0.008, respectively). In addition, dementia patients spent a lower percentage of their waking time in light-to-moderate and moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activities (20% [15-23] vs. 22% [18-25] and 5% [2-10] vs. 10% [5-13], p = 0.017 and p = 0.001, respectively). CONCLUSION: We revealed that dementia patients are more sedentary and perform less physical activity than cognitively healthy controls. This may have clinically important consequences, given the observation that sedentary behaviour and little physical activity independently predict all-cause mortality and morbidity.
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| Additional Information: | The final, published version of this article is available at http://www.karger.com/10.1159/000491995 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1702 Cognitive Science, 1109 Neurosciences |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
| Divisions: | Sport & Exercise Sciences |
| Publisher: | Karger Publishers |
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| Date Deposited: | 05 Sep 2018 10:57 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 10:09 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1159/000491995 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9165 |
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