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Objectively measured physical activity and sedentary-time are associated with arterial stiffness in brazilian young adults

Horta, Bernardo L.; Schaan, Beatriz D.; Bielemann, Renata M.; Vianna, Carolina Avila; Gigante, D. Petrucci; Fernando, C.; Ekelund, Ulf; Hallal, Pedro C.
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2379460
Date
2015-11
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Atherosclerosis. 2015, 243,148–154. doi:10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2015.09.005  
Abstract
Objective:

To examine the associations between objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time with pulse wave velocity (PWV) in Brazilian young adults.

Methods:

Cross-sectional analysis with participants of the 1982 Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohort who were followed-up from birth to 30 years of age. Overall physical activity (PA) assessed as the average acceleration (mg), time spent in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA – min/day) and sedentary time (min/day) were calculated from acceleration data. Carotid-femoral PWV (m/s) was assessed using a portable ultrasound. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP/DBP), waist circumference (WC) and body mass index (BMI) were analyzed as possible mediators. Multiple linear regression and g-computation formula were used in the analyses.

Results:

Complete data were available for 1241 individuals. PWV was significantly lower in the two highest quartiles of overall PA (0.26 m/s) compared with the lowest quartile. Participants in the highest quartile of sedentary time had 0.39 m/s higher PWV (95%CI: 0.20; 0.57) than those in the lowest quartile. Individuals achieving ≥30 min/day in MVPA had lower PWV (β = −0.35; 95%CI: −0.56; −0.14). Mutually adjusted analyses between MVPA and sedentary time and PWV changed the coefficients, although results from sedentary time remained more consistent. WC captured 44% of the association between MVPA and PWV. DBP explained 46% of the association between acceleration and PWV.

Conclusions:

Physical activity was inversely related to PWV in young adults, whereas sedentary time was positively associated.

Such associations were only partially mediated by WC and DBP.
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Open Access funded by Wellcome Trust. Under a Creative Commons license.
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal
Atherosclerosis

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