Age‐Specific Associations of Moderate‐to‐Vigorous Physical Activity With Relative and Absolute Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in UK Biobank Participants
Qiuyu Feng, Raymond Noordam, Denghui Hu, Gali Albalak, Ko Willems van Dijk, Diana van Heemst · 2026
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Qiuyu Feng, Raymond Noordam, and their co-authors asked whether the diabetes benefit of exercise depends on age. Their 2026 study used UK Biobank data from 87,975 adults who wore activity trackers and had no diabetes at the start. The team measured moderate to vigorous activity and watched who developed type 2 diabetes.
Associations were checked in five year age bands, and split by sex and by whether participants already had metabolic disease. Age and prediabetes changed the link most clearly. The benefit ran stronger in people younger than the group's median age of about 63. The team also probed, as a side analysis, whether activity later in the day differed from activity earlier. Such detail helps aim exercise advice by age.
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| CREATOR | Qiuyu Feng, Raymond Noordam, Denghui Hu, Gali Albalak, Ko Willems van Dijk, Diana van Heemst |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 45 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |