ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2020
Leisure Time Physical Activity in Relation to Mortality Among African American Women.
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- Physical activity trajectories and accumulation over adulthood and their associations with all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis.British journal of sports medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Physical Activity, Air Pollution, and Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2025Pooled it
- The role of the 'obligation to help others' within the superwoman schema: implications for physical activity in African American women with low activity levels.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Trial
- Evaluating the role of interpersonal support on daily physical activity across systems, contexts, and time among African American women: an ecological momentary assessment study.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025Trial
- Evaluating the relationship between physical activity and quality of life in a racially diverse sample of breast cancer survivors.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2024Trial
- Engagement of African American Women With Fitness Trackers and Mobile Technology for Shared Physical Activity Goals: Mixed Methods Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Article
- The impact of exercise on women's health: A bibliometric and visualization analysis (2010-2024).Medicine · 2025Article
- An overview of the Together Everyone Achieves More Physical Activity (TEAM-PA) trial to increase physical activity among African American women.Contemporary clinical trials · 2023Review
- Vitamin D and risk of hypertension among Black women.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2023Article
- Evaluating Experiences of Stress and Coping Among African American Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic to Inform Future Interventions.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionAfrican American women have a life expectancy 2.7 years shorter than that of white women and are less likely than white women to meet national physical activity guidelines. Physical activity has been found to reduce mortality, but evidence concerning African American women is limited.
methodsIn the Black Women's Health Study, a prospective cohort study of African American women begun in 1995, a total of 52,993 participants who were free of cardiovascular disease and cancer at enrollment were followed through 2017. Cox proportional hazards models evaluated the associations of repeated measures of physical activity with mortality, adjusting for demographic, medical, and lifestyle factors. Statistical analyses were last performed in September 2019.
resultsDuring the 22 years of follow-up, 4,719 deaths occurred. Higher levels of physical activity were associated with reduced all-cause, cardiovascular disease, and cancer mortality. Hazard ratios for walking ≥5 hours per week relative to no walking were 0.69 (95% CI=0.62, 0.77), 0.71 (95% CI=0.57, 0.87), and 0.80 (95% CI=0.67, 0.96) for all-cause, cardiovascular disease, and cancer mortality, respectively. The comparable hazard ratios for vigorous exercise for ≥5 hours per week vs none were 0.58 (95% CI=0.50, 0.67), 0.66 (95% CI=0.50, 0.87), and 0.52 (95% CI=0.39, 0.72).
conclusionsBoth walking for exercise and vigorous exercise were associated with reductions in mortality among African American women, including deaths from cardiovascular disease and deaths from cancer, both of which are disproportionately high in the African American population. These findings underline the importance of institutional and individual changes that will lead to increased physical activity.
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