Greenspace and physical activity in UK Biobank

Fitness, Physical Activity, And Cardiovascular Disease: Longitudinal And Genetic Analyses In The UK Biobank Study

Large Scale Population Assessment of Physical Activity Using Wrist Worn Accelerometers: The UK Biobank Study

BACKGROUND Physical activity has not been objectively measured in prospective cohorts with sufficiently large numbers to reliably detect associations with multiple health outcomes. Technological advances now make this possible. We describe the methods used to collect and analyse accelerometer measured physical activity in over 100,000 participants of the UK Biobank study, and report variation b...

Associations between fast food and physical activity environments and adiposity in mid-life: cross-sectional, observational evidence from UK Biobank

BACKGROUND The built environment might be associated with development of obesity and related disorders. We examined whether neighbourhood exposure to fast-food outlets and physical activity facilities were associated with adiposity in UK adults. METHODS We used cross-sectional observational data from UK Biobank. Participants were aged 40-70 years and attended 21 assessment centres between 200...

Bidirectional association between physical activity and muscular strength in older adults: Results from the UK Biobank study

Background The relationship between physical activity and muscular strength has not been examined in detail among older adults. The objective of this study was to examine the associations between physical activity and hand grip strength among adults aged ≥ 60 years. Methods Using data from the UK Biobank study, we included 66 582 men and women with complete baseline data and 6599 with 4.5 yea...

Understanding visual impairment in UK Biobank.

Dear Editor, In their recent article, Dawes et al. report prevalence estimates for visual impairment and dual sensory problems in middle age and associations between visual impairment and demographic factors, using data from UK Biobank. UK Biobank recruited half a million individuals with a subsample of 122 000 having an enhanced ophthalmic examination which included distance visual acuity and ...