Relationship between physical activity level, leisure sedentary time, and frailty among residents aged 30 – 79 years in Wuzhong district, Suzhou city: a baseline surveillance data... by Xikang FAN, Jiang HUA, Jian SU, Hao YU, Yan LU, Yujie HUA, Jianrong JIN, Pei PEI, Dianjianyi SUN, Canqing YU, Jun LYU, Jinyi ZHOU, Ran TAO

“…After adjusting for confounding factors such as sex, age, education level, marital status, annual household income, smoking status, alcohol consumption, frequency of fresh vegetable intake, frequency of fresh fruit intake, and frequency of red meat intake, the results of unordered multinomial logistic regression analysis showed that compared with residents with a physical activity level of < 12.73 MET-h/d, the risk of pre-frailty was 0.76 times lower (OR = 0.76, 95%CI = 0.72 – 0.80), 0.67 times lower (OR = 0.67, 95%CI = 0.63 – 0.71), and 0.66 times lower (OR = 0.66, 95%CI = 0.62 – 0.69) for those with physical activity levels of 12.73 – 23.19 MET-h/d, 23.20 – 37.29 MET-h/d, and ≥ 37.30 MET-h/d, respectively. …”
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IGJR issue 1/2018 by IF and FRFG

“…Inter alia, it examines changes in child well-being in advanced economies over the first decade of the 2000’s, looking at each country’s progress in educational achievement, teenage birth rates, childhood obesity levels, the prevalence of bullying, and the use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs. Articles could approach the topic through a broad range of questions, including: • What is a good definition of “elderly-biased policies”? …”
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