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Establishing normative trends of physical activity in aging populations is essential to developing public health guidelines and informing clinical perspectives regarding individuals\u2019 levels of physical activity. Beyond overall quantity of physical activity, patterns regarding the timing of activity provide additional insights into latent health status. Wearable accelerometers, paired with statistical methods from functional data analysis, provide the means to estimate diurnal patterns in physical activity. To date, these methods have been only applied to study aging trends in populations based in the United States. Here, we apply curve registration and functional regression to 24 h activity profiles for 88,793 men (N = 39,255) and women (N = 49,538) ages 42\u201378 from the UK Biobank accelerometer study to understand how physical activity patterns vary across ages and by gender. Our analysis finds that daily patterns in both the volume of physical activity and probability of being active change with age, and that there are marked gender differences in these trends. This work represents the largest-ever population analyzed using tools of this kind, and suggest that aging trends in physical activity are reproducible in different populations across countries.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21041545","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,23]],"date-time":"2021-02-23T20:19:36Z","timestamp":1614111576000},"page":"1545","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Diurnal Physical Activity Patterns across Ages in a Large UK Based Cohort: The UK Biobank Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6783-1421","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Julia","family":"Wrobel","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6469-1750","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"John","family":"Muschelli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA"}]},{"given":"Andrew","family":"Leroux","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Shephard, R.J. 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