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Relationship of Physical Activity and Healthy Eating With Mortality and Incident Heart Failure Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Normal Body Mass Index

Author Type(s)

Faculty

DOI

10.1002/ehf2.12028

Journal Title

ESC Heart Failure

First Page

20

Last Page

24

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-2015

Department

Medicine

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

Abstract

AIMS: Normal body mass index (BMI) is associated with lower mortality and may be achieved by physical activity (PA), healthy eating (HE), or both. We examined the association of PA and HE with mortality and incident heart failure (HF) among 2040 community-dwelling older adults aged ≥ 65 years with baseline BMI 18.5 to 24.99 kg/m

METHODS AND RESULTS: Baseline PA was defined as ≥500 weekly metabolic equivalent task-minutes (MET-minutes) and HE as ≥5 daily servings of vegetable and fruit intake. Participants were categorized into 4 groups: (1) PA-/HE- (n=384); (2) PA+/HE- (n=992); (3) PA-/HE+ (n=162); and (4) PA+/HE+ (n=502). Participants had a mean age of 74 (±6) years, mean BMI of 22.6 (±1.5) kg/m

CONCLUSION: Among community-dwelling older adults with normal BMI, physical activity, regardless of healthy eating, was associated with lower risk of mortality and incident HF, but healthy eating had no similar protective association in this cohort.

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