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World Health Organization

Thijs Eijsvogels presented ActiveLIFE during an expert meeting entitled "Integrating wearable technology into population health monitoring systems for physical activity measurement" organized by the World Health Organization (WHO). The meeting report can be found here. The report describes the discussions from the expert meeting. This meeting is part of a series of technical meetings that aim to develop guidance on integrating wearable technologies into national physical activity surveillance systems.

Ongoing studies ActiveLIFE

Aim of ActiveLIFE

More than half of the Dutch population does not engage in sufficient physical activity. ActiveLIFE aims to create one of the world’s largest dataset of objective accelerometry, allowing for further development and personalization of physical activity guidelines.

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Aim of ActiveLIFE

The ActiveLIFE project will create world’s most comprehensive dataset of thigh-worn accelerometry, allowing detailed assessment of the relationship between physical (in)activity characteristics and health outcomes. For this purpose, 60,000 accelerometry measurements of 24-hour lifestyle behaviors will be combined with other extensive measurements (i.e. body composition, blood / urine / feces biomarkers, cognition, genetics, pulmonary function, physical capacity, electrocardiography, computed tomography) in the 4th assessment wave of the Lifelines Biobank study (www.lifelines.nl).


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Progress ActiveLIFE

We already collected 10.636 accelerometry measurements. We are well underway to our target of 60.000 measurements!


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ActiveLIFE in the spotlights

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ActiveLIFE in the spotlights



Collaboration

ActiveLIFE will be performed in collaboration with the Lifelines Biobank: a large, multigenerational, population-based cohort study in the Netherlands. This project is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, the Dutch Heart Foundation, the Dutch Brain Foundation and Lung Foundation Netherlands.


Setting

ActiveLIFE will be performed in collaboration with the Lifelines Biobank: a large, multigenerational, population-based cohort study in the Netherlands that includes over 167,000 participants.

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Setting

ActiveLIFE will be performed in collaboration with the Lifelines Biobank: a large, multigenerational, population-based cohort study in the Netherlands that includes over 167,000 participants who will be followed for at least 30 years to obtain insight into (healthy) ageing and disease development. For this purpose, data are being collected with questionnaires, physical examinations, and bio samples since 2006. Given the broad collection of health-related parameters, its large sample size, deep phenotyping, and diversity, the Lifelines cohort is considered a unique international resource for high-quality and high-impact studies.

The 4th Lifelines assessment wave commenced mid-2024 and targets to measure 70,000 to 80,000 individuals within 5 years. Participants will visit the local Lifelines research center twice, separated by a time-window of 1-2 weeks. For ActiveLIFE, an accelerometer will be placed on the participant’s thigh during the first visit. Subsequently, the participant will wear the waterproof and nonobtrusive thigh-worn accelerometer for eight consecutive days to objectively and accurately assess physical (in)activity patterns. Raw data will be extracted and processed to generate a comprehensive set of 24-hour lifestyle behavior characteristics. Subsequently, we will enrich these data with prospective information on health outcomes (e.g. incident diseases and cause-specific mortality).


Accelerometry data

We anticipate to perform 60,000 accelerometer measurements in participants of the Lifelines Biobank study. Simultaneous assessment of thigh-worn and wrist-worn accelerometry measurements will be performed in ≈6,000 participants.

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Accelerometry data

We anticipate to perform 60,000 accelerometer measurements in participants of the Lifelines Biobank study. Simultaneous assessment of thigh-worn and wrist-worn accelerometry measurements will be performed in ≈6,000 participants. During their visit to the Lifelines research center, participants will undergo an extensive testing battery, including body composition, blood / urine / feces biomarkers, cognition, pulmonary function, physical function, and electrocardiography assessment as part of their enrolment in Lifelines. Following eight days of objective, habitual physical (in)activity assessment, the accelerometer will be returned, and raw data will be extracted, undergo quality control, and will be processed to produce aggregated outcomes for the Lifelines data catalogue.

Photo: Marieke van de Vegte.


International advisory board

  • Prof. dr. Francisco Ortega, University of Granada, Spain
  • Prof. dr. Emmanuel Stamatakis, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Prof. dr. Duck-chul Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA

User committee

See the user committee here

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User committee

  • Prof. dr. Martijn Spruit, Ciro, Maastricht University
  • Prof. dr. Hidde van der Ploeg, Amsterdam UMC
  • Prof. dr. Edo Richard, Radboudumc
  • Dr. Annemarie Koster, Maastricht University
  • Dr. Aernout Snoek, Vereniging voor Sportgeneeskunde, Isala
  • Dr. Martijn Pisters, UMC Utrecht, Fontys University of Applied Sciences
  • Dr. Yannick de Korte, Kenniscentrum Sport & Bewegen
  • Dr. Barbara Snoeker, Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu
  • Drs. Dorothee Laan, Beweegalliantie


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