People born preterm are likely to be less physically active as teenagers and adults, according to large Norwegian study which measured a week of participants' activity using wearable sensors

People born preterm are likely to be less physically active as teenagers and adults, according to large Norwegian study which measured a week of participants' activity using wearable sensors

Article URL: https://plos.io/4h8zWQ2

Article title: Gestational age and device-measured physical activity in adolescents and adults: A linkage of the HUNT Study and Medical Birth Registry

Author countries: Norway, Finland.

Funding: KADA was funded by the Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, NTNU. MT, EK and KAIE were funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program: Research on European Children and Adults Born Preterm (RECAP Preterm) Consortium Preterm Project (733280). SDB was funded by Dam Foundation and the Central Norway Regional Health Authority (2021/FO347467, 90654402). AK was funded by NTNU Health (81771516). EK was funded by the Academy of Finland (315690), Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF20OC0063930), Foundation for Pediatric Research, Sigrid Juselius Foundation, The Finnish Medical Foundation, Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research and Finnish Diabetes Research Foundation. KAIE was funded by the Joint Research Committee between St. Olavs hospital and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, NTNU (FFU) (30283). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.