scholarly journals The relationship between physical activity, sleep duration and depressive symptoms in older adults: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 512-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Garfield ◽  
Clare H. Llewellyn ◽  
Meena Kumari

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (11) ◽  
pp. 1820-1828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lydia Poole ◽  
Ruth A. Hackett ◽  
Laura Panagi ◽  
Andrew Steptoe

AbstractBackgroundPrevious research has shown an association between subjective wellbeing and incident diabetes. Less is known about the role of wellbeing for subclinical disease trajectories as captured via glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c). We aimed to explore the association between subjective wellbeing and future HbA1c levels, and the role of sociodemographic, behavioral and clinical factors in this association.MethodsWe used data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing for this study (N = 2161). Subjective wellbeing (CASP-19) was measured at wave 2 and HbA1c was measured 8 years later at wave 6. Participants were free from diabetes at baseline. We conducted a series of analyses to examine the extent to which the association was accounted for by a range of sociodemographic, behavioral and clinical factors in linear regression models.ResultsModels showed that subjective wellbeing (CASP-19 total score) was inversely associated with HbA1c 8 years later after controlling for depressive symptoms, age, sex, and baseline HbA1c (B = −0.035, 95% CI −0.060 to –0.011, p = 0.005). Inclusion of sociodemographic variables and behavioral factors in models accounted for a large proportion (17.0% and 24.5%, respectively) of the relationship between wellbeing and later HbA1c; clinical risk factors explained a smaller proportion of the relationship (3.4%).ConclusionsPoorer subjective wellbeing is associated with greater HbA1c over 8 years of follow-up and this relationship can in part be explained by sociodemographic, behavioral and clinical factors among older adults.





2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (7S_Part_10) ◽  
pp. P592-P592
Author(s):  
Danit Saks ◽  
Sharon L. Naismith ◽  
Haley LaMonica ◽  
Loren Mowszowski ◽  
Jonathon Pye ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 697
Author(s):  
Brigid K. Heenan ◽  
Jacqueline A. Augustine ◽  
Wesley K. Lefferts ◽  
Kayla M. Nunemacher ◽  
Tiago V. Barreira ◽  
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