Journal article
Objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time of breast cancer survivors, and associations with adiposity: Findings from NHANES (2003-2006)
BM Lynch, DW Dunstan, GN Healy, E Winkler, E Eakin, N Owen
Cancer Causes and Control | Published : 2010
Abstract
Objective Obesity and physical inactivity are poor prognostic indicators for breast cancer. Studies to date have relied on self-report measures of physical activity, which tend mainly to assess moderate-to-vigorous intensity leisure-time physical activity. We report the cross-sectional associations of objectively assessed physical activity and sedentary time with adiposity in a sample of breast cancer survivors from the United States. Methods One hundred and eleven women from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003-2004 and 2005-2006 reported a history of breast cancer. Participants wore an accelerometer for 7 days, and activity levels were summarized as moderateto..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors thank Dr. Charles Matthews (Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute) for the provision of, and expertise relating to, the accelerometer data reduction syntax. Lynch is supported by NHMRC Program Grant funding (#301200); Dunstan is supported by a Victorian Health Promotion Foundation Public Health Research Fellowship; Healy is supported by a NHMRC (#569861)/National Heart Foundation of Australia (PH 08B 3905) Postdoctoral Fellowship; Eakin is supported by a NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (#511001); Owen is supported by a Queensland Health Core Research Infrastructure grant and by NHMRC Program Grant funding (#301200).