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. 2025 May 21;17:111. doi: 10.1186/s13195-025-01751-5

Table 2.

The mean overall time spent in activity categories, the activity level and circadian indices for each diagnostic group

Alzheimer’s disease
(n = 70)
Dementia with Lewy bodies
(n = 29)
Mixed AD (+ CVD)
(n = 8)
Vascular cognitive dysfunction
(n = 15)
Healthy control
(n = 48)
P-value
Activity categories

Lying rest,

minutes/day

591 ± 102.7 625.4 ± 119.2 568.9 ± 101 633.1 ± 107.3 539.7 ± 88.8 0.005
Lying movement, minutes/day 5.7 ± 3.8 5.4 ± 3.6 6.4 ± 3.2 5.1 ± 3.4 6.3 ± 3.3 0.3
Upright standing, minutes/day 120 ± 53.6 116.8 ± 48.7 145.3 ± 65.3 89 ± 42.6 117.3 ± 40.1 0.05

Sporadic walking,

minutes/day

116.3 ± 40 98.5 ± 37.3 89.4 ± 35.4 82.1 ± 52.2 108.1 ± 32.1 0.002

Running,

minutes/week

3.1 ± 20.7 4.4 ± 15.5 0.3 ± 0.6 0.1 ± 0.3 3.8 ± 10.4 0.047

Cycling,

minutes/week

17.6 ± 40.6 60.3 ± 99.8 1.8 ± 5.1 11.2 ± 18.5 42.6 ± 65.9 0.001

Sitting,

minutes/day

489.8 ± 112.8 486.4 ± 110.3 560.9 ± 151.4 545.6 ± 138 528.2 ± 96.3 0.01

Sit-to-stand,

number/day

61 ± 19.7 65 ± 25.1 50 ± 21.8 52 ± 13.9 62 ± 15.8 0.06
Activity level and circadian indices
Overall intensity, intensity count 31.7 ± 10.6 29.1 ± 13.8 19.5 ± 10.6 21.4 ± 11.2 39.1 ± 12.2 < 0.001

Most active 10 h,

intensity count

926 ± 331 832 ± 414.9 548.6 ± 356.7 602.0 ± 353.4 1135.4 ± 401.8 < 0.001

Least active five hours,

intensity count

22.2 ± 13.6 36.0 ± 30.4 43.5 ± 11.3 34.9 ± 25.5 24.5 ± 12.7 0.002

Values are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation and are given as average number of minutes per day or week spent in an activity category as classified by the algorithm. Intensity counts are unitless. P-values from Kruskal-Wallis test. Bold indicates p-value below significance level