Article
Association between leisure-time physical activity and sedentary behavior with cardiometabolic health in the ELSA-Brasil participants
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PITANGA, F. J. G. et al. Association between leisure-time physical activity an sedentary behavior with cardiometabolic health in the ELSA-Brasil participants. SAGE Open Medicine, v. 7, p. 1-9, 2019.
2050-3121
10.1177/2050312119827089
Autor
Pitanga, Francisco José Gondim
Matos, Sheila Maria Alvim
Almeida, Maria da Conceição Chagas de
Patrão, Ana Luísa
Molina, Maria Del Carmen Bisi
Aquino, Estela Ml
Resumen
Project Attraction Young Talents, Science
without Borders, CAPES, project A061/2013. The ELSA-Brasil
baseline study was supported by the Brazilian Ministry of Health
(Science and Technology Department) and the Brazilian Ministry
of Science and Technology (Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
and CNPq National Research Council; grants 01 06 0010.00 RS, 01
06 0212.00BA, 01 06 0300.00 ES, 01 06 0278.00 MG, 01 06
0115.00SP, and 01 06 0071.00 RJ). To assess associations, both individually and in combination, between leisure-time physical activity and sedentary behavior, and cardiometabolic health. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 13,931 civil servants participating in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult
Health (ELSA-Brasil). Leisure-time physical activity was analyzed using the leisure-time domain of the long-form International
Physical Activity Questionnaire, while questions related to cumulative sitting time and leisure-based screen time on a weekday
and on one day on the weekend were used to establish sedentary behavior. Data analysis was performed using multivariate
logistic regression.
Results: Following adjustment for confounding variables, high levels of leisure-time physical activity and low levels of
sedentary behavior were both associated with favorable cardiometabolic health markers in both genders. When these two
factors were analyzed in conjunction, taking the combination of low levels of leisure-time physical activity and high levels of
sedentary behavior as the reference, the inverse associations with cardiometabolic variables became even more significant.
Conclusion: High levels of leisure-time physical activity and low levels of sedentary behavior were both inversely associated
with the cardiometabolic variables analyzed; however, the two variables when evaluated in conjunction appear to produce
more consistent associations, particularly when sedentary behavior is evaluated according to leisure-based screen time.