Assessing Lifestyle Behaviours of People Living with Neurological Conditions: A Panoramic View of Community Dwelling Australians from 2007–2018

Neurological disorders pose a substantial health and economic burden to the individual society, necessitating strategies for effective prevention disease management. Lifestyle behaviours play role in risk management of some neurological disorders; however, overlap between lifestyle across has not been well explored. We used log-binomial regression assess associations selected community-dwelling Australians (n = 192,091), whom self-reported Alzheimer’s (AD), motor neurone (MND), multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson’s (PD) or stroke. Of six behaviours, undertaking physical activity was inversely associated with presence all except PD. Smoking positively MND stroke, Participants AD stroke shared inverse cognitive engagement, face-to-face social interaction stress-reducing activities, MS online stress-reduction activities. eleven food beverage consumption categories, no were seen MND, ten categories people these Vegetable soft drink MS. Further detailed assessment commonalities may inform potential reduction disorders.