title: Physical activity patterns in healthy middle-aged women.
abstract: Exercise in healthy female adults around the menopausal transition has been routinely examined in leisure activities alone, potentially discounting the physical activity (PA) that is accumulated in household and outdoor domains. The purpose of this study was to quantify PA in healthy middle-aged women and to examine the extent to which the Center for Disease Control (CDC) PA guidelines were met through leisure, household, and outdoor activities.
  
  
  METHODS
  440 healthy women, 51-64 years old, BMI ≥18.5 or < 40 kg/m2, participated in the study using the Lifetime Physical Activity Questionnaire (LPAQ) to quantify PA.
  
  
  RESULTS
  25.91% met the CDC PA guidelines if leisure time alone was examined. When multiple domains were included, 73.41% of the women met the PA guidelines. This percentage is much higher than the reported 20.6% of U.S. adults who met the guidelines in 2011. PA in women may be underrepresented in data limited to leisure time PA.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Exercise and Sport Science , University of Utah , Salt Lake City , Utah , USA.
authors.forename: Monique
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Middlekauff
authors.affiliation: b Department of Mathematics , University of Utah , Salt Lake City , Utah , USA.
authors.forename: Woonghee
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: c Department of Family and Preventive Medicine , DFPM/Education and Research, University of Utah , Salt Lake City , Utah , USA.
authors.forename: Marlene J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Egger
authors.affiliation: d Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology , University Hospital, University of Utah , Salt Lake City , Utah , USA.
authors.forename: Ingrid E
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Nygaard
authors.affiliation: a Department of Exercise and Sport Science , University of Utah , Salt Lake City , Utah , USA.
authors.forename: Janet M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Shaw
mesh_terms: D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. / Q000592:standards; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D064368:Healthy Volunteers; D006801:Humans; D007899:Leisure Activities; D008875:Middle Aged; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States
keywords: Activity; exercise; household; leisure; middle-aged women; outdoor; physical activity; physical activity guidelines