Active aging and public health: evidence, implications, and opportunities

S Dogra, DW Dunstan, T Sugiyama… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
By 2050, 20% of the world's population will be over the age of 65 years, with projections that
80% of older adults will be living in low-to middle-income countries. Physical inactivity and …

UK Biobank: a globally important resource for cancer research

MC Conroy, B Lacey, J Bešević, W Omiyale… - British Journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
UK Biobank is a large-scale prospective study with deep phenotyping and genomic data. Its
open-access policy allows researchers worldwide, from academia or industry, to perform …

Wearable movement-tracking data identify Parkinson's disease years before clinical diagnosis

AK Schalkamp, KJ Peall, NA Harrison, C Sandor - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative movement disorder with a long
latent phase and currently no disease-modifying treatments. Reliable predictive biomarkers …

Daily energy expenditure through the human life course

H Pontzer, Y Yamada, H Sagayama, PN Ainslie… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Total daily energy expenditure (“total expenditure”) reflects daily energy needs and is a
critical variable in human health and physiology, but its trajectory over the life course is …

[HTML][HTML] The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data

C Bycroft, C Freeman, D Petkova, G Band, LT Elliott… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The UK Biobank project is a prospective cohort study with deep genetic and phenotypic data
collected on approximately 500,000 individuals from across the United Kingdom, aged …

Associations of timing of physical activity with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a prospective cohort study

H Feng, L Yang, YY Liang, S Ai, Y Liu, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
There is a growing interest in the role of timing of daily behaviors in improving health.
However, little is known about the optimal timing of physical activity to maximize health …

Wearable-device-measured physical activity and future health risk

T Strain, K Wijndaele, PC Dempsey, SJ Sharp… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Use of wearable devices that monitor physical activity is projected to increase more than
fivefold per half-decade. We investigated how device-based physical activity energy …

GGIR: a research community–driven open source R package for generating physical activity and sleep outcomes from multi-day raw accelerometer data

JH Migueles, AV Rowlands… - Journal for the …, 2019 - journals.humankinetics.com
Recent technological advances have transformed the research on physical activity initially
based on questionnaire data to the most recent objective data from accelerometers. The shift …

Wearable sensor-based human activity recognition with transformer model

I Dirgová Luptáková, M Kubovčík, J Pospíchal - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Computing devices that can recognize various human activities or movements can be used
to assist people in healthcare, sports, or human–robot interaction. Readily available data for …

Primary care-led weight management for remission of type 2 diabetes (DiRECT): an open-label, cluster-randomised trial

MEJ Lean, WS Leslie, AC Barnes, N Brosnahan… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disorder that requires lifelong treatment. We aimed
to assess whether intensive weight management within routine primary care would achieve …