Journal
DIABETOLOGIA
Volume 56, Issue 1, Pages 82-91Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-012-2743-6
Keywords
All-cause mortality; Cardiovascular disease; Epidemiology; Exercise; Physical activity; Type 1 diabetes
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- Wellcome Trust
- European Community
- Diabetes UK
- Gesellschaft der Freunde und Forderer of Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf, Germany
- National Institute for Health Research UK
- National Institute for Health Research [CDF-2010-03-30, PDA/03/07/056] Funding Source: researchfish
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The aim of this study was to examine the association of physical activity (PA) with all-cause mortality and incident and prevalent cardiovascular disease (CVD) among patients with type 1 diabetes. The EURODIAB Prospective Complications Study is a cohort including 3,250 male and female patients with type 1 diabetes (mean age 32.7 +/- 10.2 years) from 16 European countries, of whom 1,880 participated in follow-up examinations. In analysis 1 (longitudinal), the association of baseline PA (based on the reported number of hours per week spent in mild, moderate and vigorous PA) with all-cause mortality and incident CVD was examined by performing survival analysis. In analysis 2 (cross-sectional), we focused on the association between PA at follow-up (data on sports, walking distance and regular bicycling) and prevalent CVD by performing logistic regression analysis. Adjustments were made for age, sex, BMI, smoking, consumption of alcohol, consumption of certain nutrients and diabetic complications. Analysis 1 (longitudinal): participation in moderate or vigorous PA once a week or more was borderline inversely associated with all-cause mortality (men and women combined) (HR 0.66, 95% CI 0.42, 1.03) and incident CVD (women only) (HR 0.66, 95% CI 0.40, 1.08). No association was found in men. Analysis 2 (cross-sectional): total PA (indexed by sports, walking, bicycling) and distance walked were inversely associated with prevalent CVD (ORtotalPA 0.66, 95% CI 0.45, 0.97; and ORwalking 0.61, 95% CI 0.42, 0.89). PA showed a borderline inverse association with both all-cause mortality (both sexes) and incident CVD (women only) in patients with type 1 diabetes. Since this is an under-researched clinical population, future longitudinal studies with objective PA measurements are needed to expand on these results.
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