UNASSIGNED: Background. Physical activity guidelines for adults only recognize the health benefits of accumulating bouted moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), or MVPA occurring over at least 10 consecutive minutes. There is a lack of evidence supporting the health benefits of other patterns and intensities of activity including sporadic MVPA (i.e., MVPA occurring in periods of fewer than 10 consecutive minutes) and @entity3457 ( @entity3457 ). The objective of this study was to examine the health benefits associated with physical activity that does not meet the physical activity guidelines criteria for bouted MVPA. Specifically, we examined the association between sporadic MVPA and bouted and sporadic @entity3457 with the @entity209 . Methods. We studied a representative cross-sectional sample of 1,974 adults aged 20 years and older from the 2003-2006 US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Physical activity was measured over 7 days using Actigraph AM-7164 accelerometers. Each minute over the 7-day measurement period was classified as being of a sedentary, light, or moderate-to-vigorous intensity. A 10 min threshold differentiated bouted activity from sporadic activity. Average minutes/day of sporadic @entity3457 , sporadic MVPA, bouted @entity3457 , bouted MVPA, and embedded MVPA (MVPA occurring within bouts of primarily @entity3457 ) were calculated. @entity209 status was determined using established criteria. Associations were examined using logistic regression and controlled for relevant covariates. Results. For every 30 min/day of physical activity, the odds ratio (95% confidence interval) of the @entity209 was reduced by 4% (1-7%) for bouted @entity3457 , 64% (51-71%) for bouted MVPA, and 57% (45-67%) for embedded MVPA. Sporadic @entity3457 was not independently associated with the @entity209 . We could not examine the association between sporadic MVPA and the @entity209 because @entity1 accumulated such a marginal amount of this type of activity (i.e., median = 2 min/day, only 11% of @entity1 accumulated >= 5 min/day). Conclusion. The intensity of non-bouted activity is important, as embedded MVPA had a stronger association with the @entity209 than sporadic @entity3457 and a comparable association to bouted MVPA.

Intensity of bouted and sporadic physical activity and the XXXX in adults.

@entity209 :: ('MESH:D008659', 'Disease') :: ['Metabolic syndrome', 'metabolic syndrome'] @entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants'] @entity3457 :: ('OMIM:612348', 'Disease') :: ['LIPA', 'light intensity physical activity']
@entity209 :: (MESH:D008659,Disease) :: ['metabolic syndrome']
