Ahmadi, Matthew N.
Blodgett, Joanna M.
Atkin, Andrew J.
Chan, Hsiu-Wen
del Pozo Cruz, Borja
Suorsa, Kristin
Bakker, Esmee A.
Pulsford, Richard M.
Mielke, Gregore I.
Johansson, Peter J.
Hettiarachchi, Pasan
Thijssen, Dick H. J.
Stenholm, Sari
Mishra, Gita D.
Teixeira-Pinot, Armando
Rangul, Vegar
Sherar, Lauren B.
Ekelund, Ulf
Hughes, Alun D.
Lee, I.-Min
Holtermann, Andreas
Koster, Annemarie
Hamer, Mark
Stamatakis, Emmanuel
,
Funding for this research was provided by:
British Heart Foundation (SP/F/20/150002)
University of Sydney
Article History
Received: 24 May 2023
Accepted: 4 December 2023
First Online: 13 March 2024
Acknowledgements
: The data on which this research is based were drawn from six observational studies. The research included data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH) from the University of Newcastle, Australia, and the University of Queensland, Australia. We are grateful to the Australian Government Department of Health for funding and to the women who provided the survey data. We thank the following ProPASS collaborators for their contributions to the manuscript: C. Stehouwer, H. Savelberg, B. de Galan, C. van de Kallen (all Department of Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre, the Netherlands) and T. M. H. Eijsvogels (Department of Medical BioSciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, UK).
: All data requests will need to provide a methodologically sound justification and will require approval from the ProPASS Consortium.
: This study was funded by the British Heart Foundation (SP/F/20/150002). The establishment of the ProPASS Consortium was supported by an unrestricted 2018-20 grant from PAL Technologies (Glasgow, UK). Several aspects of the ProPASS Consortium methods used in this paper were funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council Ideas Grant (APP1194510). The Charles Perkins Centre (University of Sydney, Australia) and the National Research Centre for the Working Environment (Copenhagen, Denmark) co-funded the technical proof-of-concept study of the ProPASS Consortium that enabled pooling of data from different brands of wearables. MH is supported through the NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR203328). ES is funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Grant (APP1194510). BdPC is supported by the Government of Andalusia, Research Talent Recruitment Programme (EMERGIA 2020/00158). GIM is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Grant (APP2008702). GDM is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellowship (APP1121844). FIREA is supported by the Academy of Finland (286294, 294154, 319246, 332030), Ministry of Education and Culture, Juho Vainio Foundation and Finnish State Grants for Clinical Research. ActiPASS development was partly funded by FORTE, the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (2021–01561). ALSWH is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, and its substudy, from which accelerometry and clinical data were obtained, was funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant (APP1129592). MNA is supported by the National Heart Foundation (APP107158)
: The authors declare that there are no relationships or activities that might bias, or be perceived to bias, their work.
: MNA, JMB, MH, ES, LBS, AH, AK and VR were responsible for the concept and design of the study. All authors performed the acquisition, analysis, and/or interpretation of data and drafted and revised the manuscript for important intellectual content. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript to be published. MNA, MH and ES are the guarantors of this work.