Roberts-Lewis Sarah F, Ashworth Mark, White Claire M, Rose Michael R
School of Population Health and Environmental Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.
Neurology, King s College Hospital, London, UK.
BMJ Neurol Open. 2021 Mar 18;3(1):e000140. doi: 10.1136/bmjno-2021-000140. eCollection 2021.
This short article summarises findings about reduced physical activity of adults with progressive muscle disease as a result of COVID-19 lockdown.
As part of an ongoing longitudinal cohort study, we prospectively and objectively measured physical activity using accelerometry at baseline in 2019 and follow-up in 2020. A subset of 85 participants incidentally had follow-up data collected during the first UK COVID-19 lockdown from 23 March to 4 July 2020. Thus, for this cohort we had activity data from before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and we were able to prospectively and accurately quantify the changes in their physical activity.
Our data highlighted reduced overall activity intensity and reduced light activity time in particular.
From our findings, we can infer specific evidence-based recommendations about how to redress inactivity secondary to COVID-19 restrictions for adults with progressive muscle diseases. These recommendations are likely to be generalisable to other groups who are vulnerable to functional decline secondary to prolonged inactivity.
本文总结了关于因新冠疫情封锁导致进行性肌肉疾病成人身体活动减少的研究结果。
作为一项正在进行的纵向队列研究的一部分，我们在2019年基线时和2020年随访时使用加速度计对身体活动进行了前瞻性和客观的测量。85名参与者的一个子集在2020年3月23日至7月4日英国首次新冠疫情封锁期间偶然收集了随访数据。因此，对于这个队列，我们有新冠疫情之前和期间的活动数据，并且能够前瞻性和准确地量化他们身体活动的变化。
我们的数据突出显示了总体活动强度降低，尤其是轻度活动时间减少。
根据我们的研究结果，我们可以推断出关于如何纠正因新冠疫情限制导致进行性肌肉疾病成人身体活动不足的具体循证建议。这些建议可能适用于其他因长期不活动而容易出现功能衰退的群体。
