Associations between Patterns of Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Risk Factors for the Metabolic Syndrome

Citation

Metzger, Jesse S.; Catellier, Diane J.; Evenson, Kelly R.; Treuth, Margarita S.; Rosamond, Wayne D.; & Siega-Riz, Anna Maria (2010). Associations between Patterns of Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Risk Factors for the Metabolic Syndrome. American Journal of Health Promotion, 24(3), 161-169. PMCID: PMC5666300

Abstract

Purpose: To determine whether certain patterns of objectively measured physical activity (PA) are associated with the risk factors for or the diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome (MS).
Design: Latent class analysis, including assessment of the associations between latent PA classes and risk factors for the MS.
Setting: Random sample from throughout the United States using data from the 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Subjects: A total of 3458 civilian adult noninstitutionalized U.S. citizens.
Measures: Daily minutes of moderate-to-vigorous PA across a i-day week based on accekrometer measurements, as luell as high blood pressure, blood glucose levels, triglycéride levels, and body mass index, along with loiu levels of high density lipoproteins, using clinical cut points.
Results: Membership in the more active PA classes was consistently associated with lower odds of all risk factors for the MS. However, when participants were categorized into quartiles of the coefficients of variation of PA across 7 days, few differences were seen in any of the risk factors.
Conclusions: Accumulating the total weekly recommended amount of PA is consistently associated with positive health profiles, and more PA than the recommended amounts may be even better. However, the manner in which this activity is accumulated, either spread over most days of the week or compressed into just a couple of days, may have similar associations with the risk factors for the MS.

URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.4278/ajhp.08051151

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year Published

2010

Journal Title

American Journal of Health Promotion

Author(s)

Metzger, Jesse S.
Catellier, Diane J.
Evenson, Kelly R.
Treuth, Margarita S.
Rosamond, Wayne D.
Siega-Riz, Anna Maria

PMCID

PMC5666300

ORCiD

Siega-Riz - 0000-0002-1303-4248