4.6 Article

Cohort profile: the Women's Health Accelerometry Collaboration

Journal

BMJ OPEN
Volume 11, Issue 11, Pages -

Publisher

BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052038

Keywords

epidemiology; oncology; primary care; public health

Funding

  1. National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Cancer Institute, Office of the Director, Office of Disease Prevention, and Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research [5R01CA227122]
  2. NIH [CA154647, CA047988, CA182913, HL043851, HL080467, HL099355]
  3. NIH, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) [75N92021D00001, 75N92021D00002, 75N92021D00003, 75N92021D00004, 75N92021D00005, R01HL105065]
  4. NHLBI National Research Service Award [T32--HL007055]
  5. National Cancer Institute [K01 CA234317]
  6. SDSU/UCSD Comprehensive Cancer Center Partnership [U54 CA132384, U54 CA132379]
  7. Alzheimer's Disease Resource Center for Advancing Minority Aging Research at the University of California San Diego [P30 AG059299]
  8. Intramural Research Program at the NIH National Institute on Aging

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This paper describes the Women's Health Accelerometry Collaboration, which consists of two cohort studies aimed at exploring the association of physical activity and sedentary behavior with cancer incidence and mortality in women aged 62 years or older. A total of 23,443 women from the USA were included in the study, with findings showing significant relationships between accelerometer-assessed activity levels and cancer outcomes. Future plans involve utilizing the harmonized cohort to further investigate these associations using ongoing cancer surveillance data.
Purpose This paper describes the Women's Health Accelerometry Collaboration, a consortium of two prospective cohort studies of women age 62 years or older, harmonised to explore the association of accelerometer-assessed physical activity and sedentary behaviour with cancer incidence and mortality. Participants A total of 23 443 women (age mean 73.4, SD 6.8) living in the USA and participating in an observational study were included; 17 061 from the Women's Health Study (WHS) and 6382 from the Women's Health Initiative Objective Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health (WHI/OPACH) Study. Findings to date Accelerometry, cancer outcomes and covariate harmonisation was conducted to align the two cohort studies. Physical activity and sedentary behaviour were measured using similar procedures with an ActiGraph GT3X+ accelerometer, worn at the hip for 1 week, during 2011-2014 for WHS and 2012-2014 for WHI/OPACH. Cancer outcomes were ascertained via ongoing surveillance using physician adjudicated cancer diagnosis. Relevant covariates were measured using questionnaire or physical assessments. Among 23 443 women who wore the accelerometer for at least 10 hours on a single day, 22 868 women wore the accelerometer at least 10 hours/day on >= 4 of 7 days. The analytical sample (n=22 852) averaged 4976 (SD 2669) steps/day and engaged in an average of 80.8 (SD 46.5) min/day of moderate-to-vigorous, 105.5 (SD 33.3) min/day of light high and 182.1 (SD 46.1) min/day of light low physical activity. A mean of 8.7 (SD 1.7) hours/day were spent in sedentary behaviour. Overall, 11.8% of the cohort had a cancer diagnosis (other than non-melanoma skin cancer) at the time of accelerometry measurement. During an average of 5.9 (SD 1.6) years of follow-up, 1378 cancer events among which 414 were fatal have occurred. Future plans Using the harmonised cohort, we will access ongoing cancer surveillance to quantify the associations of physical activity and sedentary behaviour with cancer incidence and mortality.

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