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Fear of falls is associated with less physical activity for people in their nineties, who averaged around 3,000 daily steps per activity tracker data

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Accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary behavior in nonagenarians: Associations with self-reported physical activity, anthropometric, sociodemographic, health and cognitive characteristics

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Fear of falls is associated with less physical activity for people in their nineties, who averaged around 3,000 daily steps per activity tracker data

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0294817

Article Title: Accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary behavior in nonagenarians: Associations with self-reported physical activity, anthropometric, sociodemographic, health and cognitive characteristics

Author Countries: Finland

Funding: The NONAGINTA – Memory and Health in 90-year-olds – study was supported by the Academy of Finland (grants 320109 and 345988 to E.V.). The research work has further been supported by the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation (to S.A.), Juho Vainio Foundation (to S.A.) and the Academy of Finland (grant 314639 to E.V.). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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