Changes in leisure time physical activity unrelated to subsequent body weight changes, but body weight changes predicted future activity

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

Documents

  • Fulltext

    Final published version, 1.06 MB, PDF document

Physical activity and obesity are known to be associated. We investigated whether a change in leisure time physical activities (LTPA) predicts a subsequent weight change, or vice versa. We used data from a longitudinal study among Danish adults surveyed in 1983–1984, 1987–1988, and 1993–1994. Between two sequential surveys, the change in LTPA was grouped as no change, became less or more active; the change in body weight was defined as no change, lost or gained of more than one body mass index (BMI) unit. Among 2386 adults, change in LTPA was not associated with subsequent weight change. However, a loss in body weight (BMI change < −1 unit) was associated with subsequent either becoming less [OR = 1.49, 95% CI (1.03–2.15)] or borderline more active [OR = 1.37, 95% CI (0.99–1.90)]. Subgroup analyses showed particularity among females that a loss in body weight was associated with subsequent becoming more active [OR = 1.83, 95% CI (1.15–2.89)]. Our results suggest that change in LTPA is unrelated to subsequent weight change, but loss in body weight seems related to subsequent more active among female adults.

Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Sports Sciences
Volume40
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)288-298
Number of pages11
ISSN0264-0414
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

    Research areas

  • adults, BMI, body weight, Leisure time physical activity, longitudinal study

Number of downloads are based on statistics from Google Scholar and www.ku.dk


No data available

ID: 284565020