All-cause mortality effects of replacing sedentary time with physical activity and sleeping using an isotemporal substitution model: a prospective study of 201,129 mid-aged and older adults
posted on 2015-11-06, 13:49authored byEmmanuel Stamatakis, Kris Rogers, Ding Ding, David Berrigan, Josephine Y. Chau, Mark Hamer, Adrian Bauman
Background
Sedentary behaviour, sleeping, and physical activity are thought to be independently associated with health outcomes but it is unclear whether these associations are due to the direct physiological effects of each behaviour or because, across a finite 24-hour day, engagement in one behavior requires displacement of another. The aim of this study was to examine the replacement effects of sedentary behaviour (total sitting, television/computer screen time combined), sleeping, standing, walking, and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity on all-cause mortality using isotemporal substitution modelling.
Methods
Longitudinal analysis (4.22 ± 0 · 9 years follow-up/849,369 person-years) of 201,129 participants of the 45 and Up study aged ≥45 years from New South Wales, Australia.
Results
Seven thousand four hundred and sixty deaths occurred over follow-up. There were beneficial associations for replacing total sitting time with standing (per-hour HR: 95 % CI: 0.95, 0.94–0.96), walking (0.86, 0.81–0.90), moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (0.88, 0.85–0.90), and sleeping in those sleeping ≤ 7 h/day (0.94, 0.90–0.98). Similar associations were noted for replacing screen time. Replacing one hour of walking or moderate-to-vigorous physical activity with any other activity class was associated with an increased mortality risk by 7–18 %. Excluding deaths in the first
24 months of the follow up and restricting analyses to those who were healthy at baseline did not materially change the above observations.
Conclusion
Although replacing sedentary behaviour with walking and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity are associated with the lowest mortality risk, replacements with equal amounts of standing and sleeping (in low sleepers only) are also linked to substantial mortality risk reductions.
Funding
This research was completed using data collected through the 45 and Up Study (www.saxinstitute.org.au). These analyses were supported by Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Program Grant #301200. This research arises from ES’ personal Career Development Fellowship funded by the National Institute for Health Research (UK).
History
School
Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Volume
12
Pages
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Citation
STAMATAKIS, E. ... et al, 2015. All-cause mortality effects of replacing sedentary time with physical activity and sleeping using an isotemporal substitution model: a prospective study of 201,129 mid-aged and older adults. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 12, 121.
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Acceptance date
2015-09-12
Publication date
2015-09-30
Notes
This is an Open Access article published by Biomed Central and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
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