Prospective associations between household-, work-, and leisure-based physical activity and all-cause mortality among older taiwanese adults

Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 795-805

  Chen, Li Jung ^a   Fox, Kenneth R ^b   Ku, Po Wen ^c   Sun, Wen Jung ^d   Chou, Pesus ^e  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SPORT   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

^d Hunei Health Station   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

elderly; exercise; mortality; older people; physical activity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEISURE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TAIWAN; WORK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TAIWAN; WORK;

EID: 84867825464     PISSN: 10105395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1010539511404397     Document Type: Review

References (32)

1. Panagiotakos DB, Polystipioti A, Polychronopoulos E. Prevalence of type 2 diabetes and physical activity status in elderly men and women from Cyprus (the MEDIS study). Asia Pac J Public Health. 2007 ; 19: 22-28
2. Thuy AB, Blizzard L, Schmidt MD, Pham LH, Granger RH, Dwyer T. Physical activity and its association with cardiovascular risk factors in Vietnam [published online ahead of print September 9, 2010]. Asia Pac J Public Health. :
3. Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization ; 2004 :
4. Lee IM, Skerrett PJ. Physical activity and all-cause mortality: what is the dose-response relation?. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2001 ; 33: S459 - S471
5. Oguma Y, Sesso HD, Paffenbarger RS, Lee IM. Physical activity and all cause mortality in women: a review of the evidence. Br J Sports Med. 2002 ; 36: 162-172
6. Byberg L, Melhus H, Gedeborg R, et al. Total mortality after changes in leisure time physical activity in 50 year old men: 35 year follow-up of population based cohort. BMJ. 2009 ; 338: b688
7. Schooling CM, Lam TH, Li ZB, et al. Obesity, physical activity, and mortality in a prospective Chinese elderly cohort. Arch Intern Med. 2006 ; 166: 1498-1504
8. Nocon M, Hiemann T, Muller-Riemenschneider F, Thalau F, Roll S, Willich SN. Association of physical activity with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil. 2008 ; 15: 239-246
9. Lan T-Y, Chang H-Y, Tai T-Y. Relationship between components of leisure physical activity and mortality in Taiwanese older adults. Prev Med. 2006 ; 43: 36-41
10. Bijnen FCH, Caspersen CJ, Feskens EJM, Saris WHM, Mosterd WL, Kromhout D. Physical activity and 10-year mortality from cardiovascular diseases and all causes: the Zutphen Elderly Study. Arch Intern Med. 1998 ; 158: 1499-1505
11. Matthews CE, Jurj AL, Shu X-O, et al. Influence of exercise, walking, cycling, and overall nonexercise physical activity on mortality in Chinese women. Am J Epidemiol. 2007 ; 165: 1343-1350
12. Barengo NC, Hu G, Lakka TA, Pekkarinen H, Nissinen A, Tuomilehto J. Low physical activity as a predictor for total and cardiovascular disease mortality in middle-aged men and women in Finland. Eur Heart J. 2004 ; 25: 2204-2211
13. Andersen LB, Schnohr P, Schroll M, Hein HO. All-cause mortality associated with physical activity during leisure time, work, sports, and cycling to work. Arch Intern Med. 2000 ; 160: 1621-1628
14. Khaw K-T, Jakes R, Bingham S, et al. Work and leisure time physical activity assessed using a simple, pragmatic, validated questionnaire and incident cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in men and women: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer in Norfolk prospective population study. Int J Epidemiol. 2006 ; 35: 1034-1043
15. Ku PW, Fox KR, McKenna J, Peng T. Prevalence of leisure-time physical activity in Taiwanese adults: results of four national surveys, 2000-2004. Prev Med. 2006 ; 43: 454-457
16. Sun W-J, Chi L-Y, Jen I-A, Tsai Y-J, Chou T-M, Chou P. Short Form-36 and World Health Organization Quality of Life-Brief Version: which one should be chosen for community-dwelling elders in South Taiwan?. Prim Care Community Psychiatry. 2008 ; 13: 168-176
17. PASE: Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly: Administration and Scoring Instruction Manual. Watertown, MA: New England Research Institutes ; 1991 :
18. Fu L-L. Health status and physical function in the community dwelling elderly women with different physical activity level. J Phys Ther Assoc ROC. 1999 ; 24: 392-399
19. Washburn RA, Smith KW, Jette AM, Janney CA. The physical activity scale for the elderly (PASE): development and evaluation. J Clin Epidemiol. 1993 ; 46: 153-162
20. International Obesity Task Force. The Asia-Pacific perspective: redefining obesity and its treatment. http://www.wpro.who.int/internet/ resources.ashx/NUT/Redefining+obesity.pdf. Accessed March 8, 2011.
21. Gregg EW, Cauley JA, Stone K, et al. Relationship of changes in physical activity and mortality among older women. JAMA. 2003 ; 289: 2379-2386
22. Hagiwara A, Ito N, Sawai K, Kazuma K. Validity and reliability of the Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE) in Japanese elderly people. Geriatr Gerontol Int. 2008 ; 8: 143-151
23. Eaton CB, Medalie JH, Flocke SA, Zyzanski SJ, Yaari S, Goldbourt U. Self-reported physical activity predicts long-term coronary heart disease and all-cause mortalities: twenty-one-year follow-up of the Israeli Ischemic Heart Disease Study. Arch Fam Med. 1995 ; 4: 323-329
24. Morgan K, Clarke D. Customary physical activity and survival in later life: a study in Nottingham, UK. J Epidemiol Community Health. 1997 ; 51: 490-493
25. Banks-Wallace J, Conn V. Interventions to promote physic al activity among African American women. Public Health Nurs. 2002 ; 19: 321-335
26. Phongsavan P, Merom D, Marshall AL, Bauman A. Estimating physical activity level: the role of domestic activities. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2004 ; 58: 466-467
27. Weller I, Corey P. The impact of excluding non-leisure energy expenditure on the relation between physical activity and mortality in women. Epidemiology. 1998 ; 9: 632-635
28. Lamonte MJ, Blair SN Epidemiologic Methods in Physical Activity Studies. Lee I-M, ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press ; 2008: 139-157.
29. Gregg EW, Cauley JA, Stone K, et al. Relationship of changes in physical activity and mortality among older women. JAMA. 2003 ; 289: 2379-2386
30. Blair SN, Haskell WL. Objectively measured physical activity and mortality in older adults. JAMA. 2006 ; 296: 216-218
31. Ko YC, Huang YL, Lee CH, Chen MJ, Lin LM, Tsai CC. Betel quid chewing, cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption related to oral cancer in Taiwan. J Oral Pathol Med. 1995 ; 24: 450-453
32. Liaw K, Chen C. Mortality attributable to cigarette smoking in Taiwan: a 12-year follow-up study. Tob Control. 1998 ; 7: 141-148