Dori E Rosenberg1, Eileen Rillamas-Sun2, John Bellettiere3, Michael LaMonte4, David M Buchner5, Chongzhi Di2, Julie Hunt2, Stephen Marshall6, Marcia Stefanick7, Yuzheng Zhang2, Andrea Z LaCroix3. 1. Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA. 2. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA. 3. Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego, California, USA. 4. Department of Epidemiology and Environmental health, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA. 5. Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA. 6. Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. 7. Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND/ OBJECTIVE: Falls cause significant problems for older adults. Sedentary time is associated with lower physical function and could increase the risk for falls. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: Sites across the United States. PARTICIPANTS: Older women (N = 5,545, mean age 79 years) from the Women's Health Initiative Objective Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health study. MEASUREMENTS: Accelerometers worn at the hip for up to 1 week collected measures of daily sedentary time and the mean sedentary bout duration, a commonly used metric for sedentary accumulation patterns. For up to 13 months after accelerometer wear, women reported daily whether they had fallen on monthly calendars. RESULTS: In fully adjusted models, the incident rate ratios (95% confidence interval) for quartiles 1 (lowest), 2, 3, and 4 of sedentary time respectively were 1.0 (ref.), 1.07 (0.93-1.24), 1.07 (0.91-1.25), and 1.14 (0.96-1.35; P-trend = .65) and for mean sedentary bout duration was 1.0 (ref.), 1.05 (0.92-1.21), 1.02 (0.88-1.17), and 1.17 (1.01-1.37; P-trend = .01), respectively. Women with a history of two or more falls had stronger associations between sedentary time and falls incidence compared with women with a history of no or one fall (P for interaction = .046). CONCLUSIONS: Older women in the highest quartile of mean sedentary bout duration had a significantly increased risk of falling. Women with a history of frequent falling may be at higher risk for falling if they have high sedentary time. Interventions testing whether shortening total sedentary time and/or sedentary bouts lowers fall risk are needed to confirm these observational findings.
BACKGROUND/ OBJECTIVE: Falls cause significant problems for older adults. Sedentary time is associated with lower physical function and could increase the risk for falls. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: Sites across the United States. PARTICIPANTS: Older women (N = 5,545, mean age 79 years) from the Women's Health Initiative Objective Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health study. MEASUREMENTS: Accelerometers worn at the hip for up to 1 week collected measures of daily sedentary time and the mean sedentary bout duration, a commonly used metric for sedentary accumulation patterns. For up to 13 months after accelerometer wear, women reported daily whether they had fallen on monthly calendars. RESULTS: In fully adjusted models, the incident rate ratios (95% confidence interval) for quartiles 1 (lowest), 2, 3, and 4 of sedentary time respectively were 1.0 (ref.), 1.07 (0.93-1.24), 1.07 (0.91-1.25), and 1.14 (0.96-1.35; P-trend = .65) and for mean sedentary bout duration was 1.0 (ref.), 1.05 (0.92-1.21), 1.02 (0.88-1.17), and 1.17 (1.01-1.37; P-trend = .01), respectively. Women with a history of two or more falls had stronger associations between sedentary time and falls incidence compared with women with a history of no or one fall (P for interaction = .046). CONCLUSIONS: Older women in the highest quartile of mean sedentary bout duration had a significantly increased risk of falling. Women with a history of frequent falling may be at higher risk for falling if they have high sedentary time. Interventions testing whether shortening total sedentary time and/or sedentary bouts lowers fall risk are needed to confirm these observational findings.
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