Lifetime leisure-time physical activity and the risk of depressive symptoms at the ages of 65

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Lifetime leisure-time physical activity and the risk of depressive symptoms at the ages of 65–74years: The FIN-D2D survey

Mauno Vanhala Heikki Oksa Pekka Mäntyselkä Hannu Kautiainen Markku Peltonen Katariina Korniloff Hannu Koponen Olli Kampman Arja Häkkinen

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Male Gerontology Time Factors Personality Inventory Epidemiology Cross-sectional study Population Comorbidity Gee 03 medical and health sciences Age Distribution Leisure Activities 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors Surveys and Questionnaires Prevalence Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Functional ability Age of Onset education Exercise Geriatric Assessment Finland Aged Metabolic Syndrome Depressive Disorder education.field_of_study business.industry Incidence (epidemiology)Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Beck Depression Inventory ta3141 030229 sport sciences Middle Aged medicine.disease Comorbidity Cross-Sectional Studies Social Class Chronic Disease Regression Analysis Female Sedentary Behavior Age of onset business human activities

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To investigate the association between lifetime leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and depressive symptoms (DS) based on the population-based FIN-D2D cross-sectional survey conducted in 2007.Nine hundred twenty seven randomly selected Finnish men and women aged 65-74 years were included in this study. DS were determined with the Beck Depression Inventory (≥10 points), and lifetime historical LTPA frequency from age 15 years onwards was recalled retrospectively.The frequency of LTPA was highest at the ages of 15-24 years in both the DS present and not present groups (14.6 times per month). LTPA frequency was significantly lower among those with DS compared with those without DS at the age of 45-54 (10.0 vs. 11.3, p=0.041), 55-64 (9.6 vs. 12.6, p0.001), and 65-74 (8.6 vs. 11.9, p0.001). Also the prevalence of somatic diseases was higher for those with DS compared with participants without DS.This study reveals lifetime LTPA variation and its potential consequences. The relationship found between reduced lifetime LTPA and the occurrence of DS suggest that promoting LTPA throughout one's lifetime would be beneficial in terms of DS and somatic diseases in older age.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2011-11-30	Preventive Medicine

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.02.008