Mitchell, JJ;
Hamer, M;
Blodgett, JM;
Wannamethee, GS;
Jefferis, BJ;
(2023)
Associations between sporting physical activity and cognition in mid and later-life: Evidence from two cohorts.
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
10.1111/sms.14412.
(In press).
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Abstract
Evidence has linked sporting leisure time physical activity (sporting-LTPA) to healthy cognition throughout adulthood. This may be due to the physiological effects of physical activity (PA), or to other, psychosocial facets of sport. We examined associations between sporting-LTPA and cognition while adjusting for device-measured PA volume devoid of context, both in midlife (N = 4041) participants from the 1970 British Cohort Study and later-life (N = 957) participants from the British Regional Heart Study. Independent of device-measured PA, we identified positive associations between sporting-LTPA and cognition. Sports with team/partner elements were strongly positively associated with cognition, suggesting LTPA context may be critical to this relationship.
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