Understanding Activity Patterns and Heart Health
Statistical methods for analyzing objectively measured physical activity.
This project creates new ways to look at how your daily physical activity, sitting, and sleep patterns connect to your heart health.
Quick facts
| Grant type | R01 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Seattle, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11117059 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
This project is creating new statistical tools to better understand how your daily patterns of physical activity, sitting, and sleep affect your health, especially your heart. Currently, different types of activities are often looked at separately, but this project recognizes that they all work together throughout your 24-hour day. We are developing advanced methods to analyze information from wearable devices like accelerometers, which collect rich data on these behaviors. This will help us understand the full picture of how these patterns relate to health outcomes, like cardiovascular diseases.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: This research is relevant to anyone interested in how their daily activity, sitting, and sleep patterns might affect their risk for cardiovascular diseases.
Not a fit: Patients looking for direct clinical intervention or immediate treatment options would not directly benefit from this statistical methods development.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this work could lead to clearer guidelines on how different combinations of activity, sitting, and sleep throughout the day impact heart health, helping people make better lifestyle choices.
How similar studies have performed: This project proposes novel statistical methods to address a critical need identified by experts, building upon existing epidemiological studies that have collected objective activity data.
Where this research is happening
Seattle, United States
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center — Seattle, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Di, Chongzhi — Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
- Study coordinator: Di, Chongzhi
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.