Prevention & lipidsCross-sectional study
Device-measured physical activity and cardiometabolic health: the Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting, and Sleep (ProPASS) consortium
- Cross-sectional study
- pooled data from six studies
- compositional data analysis
Authors' conclusion
Compositional data analyses revealed a distinct hierarchy of behaviours. Moderate-vigorous physical activity demonstrated the strongest, most time-efficient protective associations with cardiometabolic outcomes.
Study context
- Population
- Adults in the ProPASS consortium, six studies, five countries
- Participants
- 15,253 adults · 6 studies
- Exposure
- Reallocation of time between movement behaviours
- Outcome
- Associations of five-part movement compositions with adiposity and cardiometabolic biomarkers (body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, HDL-C, total:HDL cholesterol ratio, TG, HbA1c)
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
BMI with 30 min reallocated into MVPA
Difference, kg/m²
- Moderate-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) replacing sedentary behaviour (SB) (30 min)
- −0.63 (95% CI −0.48 to −0.79)
- MVPA replacing sleep (30 min)
- −0.43 (95% CI −0.25 to −0.59)
- MVPA replacing standing (30 min)
- −0.40 (95% CI −0.25 to −0.56)
- MVPA replacing light-intensity physical activity (LIPA) (30 min)
- −0.15 (95% CI 0.05,–0.34)
- Minimal displacement into MVPA for improved cardiometabolic health
- 3.8 (HbA1c) to 12.7 (triglycerides) min/day
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Average daily composition
h
- Sleep
- 7.7
- Sedentary
- 10.4
- Standing
- 3.1
- LIPA
- 1.5
- MVPA
- 1.3
- age 53.7 ± 9.7 years; 54.7% female
Original publication
Device-measured physical activity and cardiometabolic health: the Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting, and Sleep (ProPASS) consortium. Eur Heart J. Published 10 November 2023. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehad717
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it