Associations of Sensor-Derived Physical Behavior with Metabolic Health: A Compositional Analysis in the Record Multisensor Study

Isaac Debache, Audrey Bergouignan, Basile Chaix, Emiel M Sneekes, Frédérique Thomas and Cédric Sueur
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Isaac Debache: Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), UMR 7178 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Strasbourg, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Audrey Bergouignan: Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), UMR 7178 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Strasbourg, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Basile Chaix: INSERM, Sorbonne Université, Institut Pierre Louis d’Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, IPLESP, Nemesis team, F75012 Paris, France
Emiel M Sneekes: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus MC, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Frédérique Thomas: Preventive and Clinical Investigation Center, 75116 Paris, France
Cédric Sueur: Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), UMR 7178 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Strasbourg, 67000 Strasbourg, France

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 5, 1-15

Abstract: Previous studies about the effects of physical activity and sedentary behaviors on health rarely recorded the exact body postures and movements, although they might be of metabolic relevance. Moreover, few studies treated the time budget of behaviors as compositions and little was done to characterize the distribution of durations of behavior sequences in relation with health. Data from the RECORD (Residential Environment and CORonary heart Disease) study of two combined VitaMove accelerometers worn at the trunk and upper leg for a week by 154 male and female adults (age = 50.6 ± 9.6 years, BMI = 25.8 ± 3.9 kg/m 2 ) were analyzed. Using both iso-temporal substitution and compositional analysis, we examined associations between five physical behaviors (lying, sitting, standing, low physical activity, moderate-to-vigorous activity) and seven health outcomes (fasting serum glucose, low- and high-density lipoprotein, and triglycerides levels, body mass index, and waist circumference). After adjustment for confounding variables, total standing time was positively associated with better lipid profile, and lying during the day with adiposity. No significant association was observed between breaking up moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and health. This study highlights the importance of refined categories of postures in research on physical activity and health, as well as the necessity for new tools to characterize the distribution of behavior sequence durations, considering both bouts and micro-sequences.

Keywords: sitting; standing; low physical activity; moderate-to-vigorous physical activity; blood lipids; glucose; HDL; compositional analysis; iso-temporal substitution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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