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P9.02 TELEVISION TIME IS ADVERSELY ASSOCIATED WITH ARTERIAL STIFFNESS IN YOUNG ADULTS: THE AMSTERDAM GROWTH AND HEALTH LONGITUDINAL STUDY

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R.J. van de Laar1, I. Ferreira1, W. van Mechelen2, M.H. Prins1, J.W.R. Twisk2, C.D.A. Stehouwer1
1Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands
2VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Available Online 2 December 2010.
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Purpose: To investigate 1) the association between television (TV) viewing and arterial stiffness (AS); and 2) whether any such association is independent of other lifestyle risk factors (RFs), most notably vigorous habitual physical activity (HPA), and/or is explained by TV-time-related adverse associations with biological RFs.

Methods: We investigated repeated measures (at ages 32 and 36) of TV time and other RFs among 373 subjects in whom stiffness of 3 large arteries was assessed with ultrasonography at age 36. Generalized estimating equations were used to determine the average differences in TV time between subjects across sex-specific tertiles (T1-3) of the inversed carotid, brachial and femoral distensibility (DC) and compliance (CC) coefficients, and the carotid Young’s elastic modulus (Einc).

Results: Compared with subjects in T1 (less stiff), those in T3 (stiffer arteries) of the carotid DC, CC and Einc spent more time (in min/day) [19.9 (95%CI:5.9;33.9), 16.7 (2.3;31.1) and 17.6 (3.7;31.5), respectively] on TV viewing during the 4 preceding years (Table, model 1). These differences were independent of vigorous HPA and other lifestyle RFs (model 2–3), and only in part (up to 31%) explained by TV-time-related associations with biological RFs (model 4). Qualitatively similar results were found for femoral, but not brachial, stiffness estimates.

Discussion: TV time is associated with higher levels of carotid and femoral stiffness in young adults, independently of HPA and other RFs. Promotion of more physical activity but also less sedentarism (two distinct behaviours) should, therefore, be encouraged to prevent AS and related sequelae.

Model: adjustments Carotid DC (T3 vs T1) Carotid CC (T3 vs T1) Carotid Einc (T3 vs T1)
β 95%CI β 95%CI β 95%CI
1. Crude + sex, time and height 19.9 5.9;33.9 16.7 2.3;31.1 17.6 3.7;31.5
2. 1+ vigorous HPA 20.0 6.1;33.9 16.4 2.1;30.8 17.3 3.4;31.1
3. 2+ smoking/alcohol statuses and energy intake 22.4 8.7;36.1 18.4 4.2;32.5 19.7 6.0;33.4
4. 3+ MAP, sum of skinfolds, VO2max,total-to-HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, heart rate 15.4 1.2;29.6 14.1 −0.3;28.4 14.7 0.7;18.6
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Volume-Issue
4 - 4
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173 - 173
Publication Date
2010/12/02
ISSN (Online)
1876-4401
ISSN (Print)
1872-9312
DOI
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