Department of Health & Wellness Design, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
Department of Sports Sciences, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, Korea.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jun 30;19(13):8076. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19138076.
The literature suggests that leisure walking can play an important role in preventing dementia. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between leisure walking and the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other dementias among older adults. Using the 2020 Health and Retirement Study (HRS), 4581 responses constituted the sample for the present study. A hierarchical logit regression analysis was conducted to investigate the relationship between leisure walking and the prevalence of AD and dementia. The results show that leisure walking has been negatively associated with the prevalence of AD and other dementias-that is, they indicate that older adults who frequently engaged in leisure walking were less likely to develop AD and other dementias. This finding suggests the importance of leisure walking as a dementia prevention program for older adults.
文献表明,休闲散步可以在预防痴呆方面发挥重要作用。本研究的目的是调查休闲散步与老年人中阿尔茨海默病(AD)和其他类型痴呆的患病率之间的关系。本研究使用了 2020 年健康与退休研究(HRS)的数据,共有 4581 个回复构成了样本。采用分层逻辑回归分析来研究休闲散步与 AD 和痴呆患病率之间的关系。结果表明,休闲散步与 AD 和其他类型痴呆的患病率呈负相关,也就是说,经常进行休闲散步的老年人患 AD 和其他类型痴呆的可能性较低。这一发现表明,休闲散步作为一种针对老年人的痴呆预防计划具有重要意义。