ArticleObesity (Silver Spring, Md.)2014
Persistence or change in leisure-time physical activity habits and waist gain during early adulthood: a twin-study.
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- Developmental trajectories of body mass index since childhood and health-related quality of life in young adulthood: Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2022Article
- An integrative machine learning approach to discovering multi-level molecular mechanisms of obesity using data from monozygotic twin pairs.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Can leisure-time physical activity improve health checkup results? Evidence from Japanese occupational panel data.Journal of occupational health · 2016Article
- iGEMS: an integrated model for identification of alternative exon usage events.Nucleic acids research · 2016Article
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objectiveTo determine the relationship between persistence or change in leisure-time physical activity habits and waist gain among young adults.
methodsPopulation-based cohort study among 3383 Finnish twin individuals (1578 men) from five birth cohorts (1975-1979), who answered questionnaires at mean ages of 24.4 y (SD 0.9) and 33.9 y (SD 1.2), with reported self-measured waist circumference. Persistence or change in leisure-time physical activity habits was defined based on thirds of activity metabolic equivalent h/day during follow-up (mean 9.5 y; SD 0.7).
resultsDecreased activity was linked to greater waist gain compared to increased activity (3.6 cm, P < 0.001 for men; 3.1 cm, P < 0.001 for women). Among same-sex activity discordant twin pairs, twins who decreased activity gained an average 2.8 cm (95%CI 0.4 to 5.1, P = 0.009) more waist than their co-twins who increased activity (n = 85 pairs); among MZ twin pairs (n = 43), the difference was 4.2 cm (95%CI 1.2 to 7.2, P = 0.008).
conclusionsAmong young adults, an increase in leisure-time physical activity or staying active during a decade of follow-up was associated with less waist gain, but any decrease in activity level, regardless baseline activity, led to waist gain that was similar to that associated with being persistently inactive.
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