Device-measured physical activity, adiposity and mortality: a harmonised meta-analysis of eight prospective cohort studies.

"Competing interests: None declared."

"Funding: The ABC study was funded by the Stockholm County Council, the Swedish National Centre for Research in Sports and the project ALPHA, which received funding from the European Union in the framework of the Public Health Programme and Folksam Research Foundation, Sweden. The British Regional Heart Study was funded by project and programme grants from the British Heart Foundation (PG/13/86/30546, RG/13/16/30528). The EPIC-Norfolk study has received funding from the UK Medical Research Council (MR/N003284/1), Cancer Research UK (C864/A14136) and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Cambridge (IS-BRC-1215-20014). PCD is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Research Fellowship (1142685), and PCD and KW by the UK Medical Research Council (MC_UU_12015/3, MC_UU_00006/4, MC_UU_12015/3). The Framingham Heart Study’s data collection and analysis was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) (N01-HC25195, HHSN268201500001I, 75N92019D00031) and grant from the National Institute on Aging (R01AG047645), Health and Human Services (HHS) (N268201500001I, R01-AG047645, R01-HL131029) and the American Heart Association (15GPSGC24800006). The Norwegian National Physical Activity Surveillance Study was supported by the Norwegian Directorate for Public Health and the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. JT is funded by the Research Council of Norway (249932/F20). The REGARDS study was supported by a cooperative agreement (U01-NS041588) cofunded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the National Institute on Aging of the NIH. Additional funding was provided by an investigator-initiated grant (R01-NS061846) from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the NIH and an unrestricted research grant from the Coca-Cola. The Women’s Health Study was funded by the NIH grants (CA154647, CA047988, CA182913, HL043851, HL080467, HL099355). EJS was supported by the intramural research programme at the National Institute on Aging."