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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Gross, Alden L.a; d; * | Lu, Haidonge | Meoni, Lucyb | Gallo, Joseph J.c | Schrack, Jennifer A.a; d | Sharrett, A. Richeya
Affiliations: [a] Departments of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA | [b] Departments of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA | [c] Departments of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA | [d] Johns Hopkins University Center on Aging and Health, Baltimore, MD, USA | [e] Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Correspondence: [*] Correspondence to: Alden L. Gross, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2024 E. Monument St., Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Tel.: +1 410 474 3386; E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: Background: Links between physical activity and dementia are based primarily on cross-sectional data or studies with unsatisfactory follow-up. Objective:We leveraged three decades of follow-up from an established cohort to determine whether physical activity in midlife is associated with late-life cognition and dementia. Methods:The Johns Hopkins Precursors study (n = 646) enrolled participants from 1948–1964 and administered questions about physical activity, from which we calculated metabolic equivalents (MET h/day), and exercise from 1978-present. Cognitive tests were administered in 2008. Dementia was adjudicated through 2011. To characterize associations with midlife physical activity, we used linear regression for cognitive tests and Cox proportional hazards models for dementia onset. Models adjusted for age, sex, smoking, diabetes, and hypertension. Results:No physical activity measure from 1978 was associated with late-life cognition or onset of dementia. Both MET h/day (β= 0.007, 95% CI: 0.002, 0.013) and regular exercise (β= 0.357, 95% CI: 0.202, 0.513) in 2006, however, were associated with better cognition in 2008. Conclusion:Findings from this 30-year cohort study that physical activity measured recently, but not in mid-life, is associated with late-life cognition fits with null findings from randomized trials and other observational studies with extensive follow-up. Cross-sectional findings may be misleading due to reverse causation.
Keywords: Cognition, dementia, older adults, physical activity
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-170290
Journal: Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 1349-1358, 2017
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