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Sedentary Behavior and Incident Dementia Among Older Adults

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25 points by agonz253 · 2 comments

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safety1st

> Findings: In this retrospective study of prospectively collected data of 49 841 adults participating in the UK Biobank, more time spent in sedentary behaviors (determined through a machine learning–based analysis of wrist-worn accelerometer data) was significantly associated with higher risk of incident dementia.

I don't think this comes as a big surprise to anyone, but nice to have a large study reinforcing it.

amanaplanacanal

Alternate explanation: dementia leads to depression, which leads to sedentary behavior. Not sure how we would disentangle cause and effect here.

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