Assessing lifestyle behaviours of people living with neurological conditions: A panoramic view of community dwelling australians from 2007–2018

Abstract

Neurological disorders pose a substantial health and economic burden to the individual and society, necessitating strategies for effective prevention and disease management. Lifestyle be-haviours play a role in risk and management of some neurological disorders; however, overlap between lifestyle behaviours across disorders has not been well explored. We used log‐binomial regression to assess associations of selected lifestyle behaviours in community‐dwelling Australians (n = 192,091), some of whom self‐reported Alzheimer’s disease (AD), motor neurone disease (MND), multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson’s disease (PD) or stroke. Of six lifestyle behaviours, undertaking physical activity was inv..