Dietary intake was associated with physical activity, as expected, and not significantly associated with performance or function (with the exception of gait speed).
More specifically, increased physical activity is expected to, among others, reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases and improve health related quality of life.
In addition, Kwaśniewska and colleagues [ 29] found that physical activity is expected to reduce the prevalence of metabolic syndrome among never and past smokers.
Men who reported high levels of physical activity were expected to live 3.8 (95% confidence interval 2.7 to 4.8) years longer than sedentary men and 1.8 (1.3 to 2.2) years longer than men who reported medium levels of physical activity.
Considering these previous physical and functional experiments of the role of Glut4 in physical activity, we expected to see differential expression between our inherently high- and low-active strains of mice.
The exercise intensity of our training protocol was considered to be in the range of moderate to hard, and this level of physical activity was expected to achieve similar benefits to that reported in type 2 diabetic patients [ 24].
As the work-focused intervention had a specific aim of reducing FAB of work whereas the multidisciplinary interventions were more focused on reduction of FAB of physical activity, we expected a larger reduction in FABQ-W scores in the work-focused intervention.
With 6 more months of physical activity, we expect to detect group differences as small as 2.3 HU.
If, as three studies 27 29 show, this displaces car journeys (rather than active travel), then increased physical activity would be expected because public transport use typically is accompanied by some walking.
Although we did not collect information on work-related and leisure-time physical activities, we expect that differences in work-related physical activities between the two exposure groups might have decreased, rather than caused, the differences in LTL we found in our study.
