Factors Associated with Objectively Measured Physical Activity in Patients with Seropositive Rheumatoid Arthritis

Sandra Haider, Michael Sedlak, Ali Kapan, Igor Grabovac, Thomas Lamprecht, Ludwig Erlacher, Michael Quittan, Karl Heinrich Fenzl and Thomas Ernst Dorner
Additional contact information
Sandra Haider: Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Michael Sedlak: Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Ali Kapan: Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Igor Grabovac: Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Thomas Lamprecht: Karl Landsteiner Institute for Autoimmune Disease and Rheumatology, 1100 Vienna, Austria
Ludwig Erlacher: Karl Landsteiner Institute for Autoimmune Disease and Rheumatology, 1100 Vienna, Austria
Michael Quittan: Karl Landsteiner Institute for Remobilization and Functional Health, 1130 Vienna, Austria
Karl Heinrich Fenzl: Karl Landsteiner Institute for Autoimmune Disease and Rheumatology, 1100 Vienna, Austria
Thomas Ernst Dorner: Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 23, 1-12

Abstract: Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease, which is associated with low levels of physical activity (PA). However, the factors related to low physical activity levels have rarely been studied. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 70 seropositive RA patients were included. Physical activity was objectively assessed with an ActiGraph GT3X+ accelerometer. In addition, body mass index, smoking status, work ability, and clinical parameters (functional disabilities, disease activity, disease duration, pain, and inflammation parameters) were measured. Results: RA patients performed a mean of 215.2 (SD: 136.6) min a week of moderate physical activity and 9.1 (SD: 26.3) min of vigorous physical activity. The total amount of moderate and vigorous physical activity (MVPA) was associated with BMI, and functional disabilities. In addition, non-smokers and patients with better work ability did more MVPA. No association could be seen with disease activity, disease duration, pain, and inflammatory markers. After mutual adjusting of all the variables, only BMI showed a significant relationship with MVPA. Conclusions: RA patients perform de facto no physical activity with vigorous intensity. Factors related to low physical activity are BMI, functional disabilities, workability and smoking status, whereas due to the study design no causal and temporal link could be made.

Keywords: physical activity; accelerometer; rheumatoid arthritis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/23/9008/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/23/9008/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:23:p:9008-:d:455614

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().