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Area of Science:

  • Epidemiology
  • Preventive Medicine
  • Biomedical Data Science

Background:

  • Physical activity is crucial for health, but its precise impact on disease incidence is not well-defined.
  • Wearable accelerometers offer more accurate physical activity quantification than self-reported measures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantify the association between objectively measured moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and the incidence of 697 diseases.
  • To compare accelerometer-based MVPA associations with those derived from self-reported data.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized wrist-worn accelerometry data from 96,244 UK Biobank participants.
  • Employed Cox proportional hazards models to assess associations between MVPA (total and guideline-adherent) and disease incidence over a median of 6.3 years.
  • Adjusted for multiple confounders and corrected for multiplicity using a false discovery rate of 1%.

Main Results:

  • Objectively measured MVPA was associated with a reduced risk of 373 (54%) diseases.
  • Increased MVPA demonstrated a strong inverse relationship with disease incidence across all 16 tested disease categories.
  • Guideline-adherent MVPA (≥150 min/week) showed significant risk reduction for heart failure, type 2 diabetes, cholelithiasis, and chronic bronchitis; self-reported data yielded smaller effect sizes.

Conclusions:

  • Objective measurement of physical activity via accelerometry robustly links higher MVPA to lower disease incidence.
  • Findings highlight the importance of objective activity measurement for understanding health benefits and potentially optimizing disease prevention strategies.