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Sedentary behaviour and disease risk

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
AbstractSedentary behaviour has become the new reference of living, which has paralleled the increase in the prevalence of multiple chronic diseases. Here, we highlight the evidence to date and propose specific topics of interest for the Collection at BMC Public Health, titled “Sedentary behaviour and disease risk”.
Joseph Henson   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Sedentary behaviour and sleep quality

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
AbstractHigh-quality sleep is an important factor in sustaining health and improving well-being. Previous evidence has demonstrated the positive associations between increased physical activity and reduced sedentary behaviour (SB) with sleep quality. The substitutional relationships between SB, light-intensity physical activity (LPA), and moderate-to ...
Mohammad Javad Koohsari   +7 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Associations of frailty with partial and absolute sedentary behaviours among older adults: A STROBE-compliant analysis of modifiability by gender and age.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
BackgroundResearch shows that frailty is associated with higher sedentary behaviour, but the evidence to date regarding this association is inconclusive.
Nestor Asiamah   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sedentary Behaviour and Ageing

open access: yes, 2023
This chapter focuses on the prevalence and amount of sedentary behaviour in older adults with a range of functional limitations, distinguishing the differences between those who live independently with those who live in residential settings or who are subject to enforced sedentary behaviour, such as those in hospital.
Skelton, Dawn   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Sedentary behaviour among older adults residing in flat and hilly neighbourhoods and its association with frailty and chronic disease status

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background Living in hilly neighbourhoods can be associated with sedentary behaviour, but no study has compared sedentary behaviour and its associations with frailty, chronic diseases, and poor health between flat and hilly neighbourhoods among older ...
Nestor Asiamah   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with hard and light intensity physical activity but not time spent sedentary in 10–14 year old schoolchildren: the HAPPY study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Sedentary behaviour is a major risk factor for developing chronic diseases and is associated with low cardiorespiratory fitness in adults. It remains unclear how sedentary behaviour and different physical activity subcomponents are related to ...
AR Gaya   +40 more
core   +5 more sources

Factors influencing sedentary behaviours after stroke: findings from qualitative observations and interviews with stroke survivors and their caregivers

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2020
Background Stroke survivors are more sedentary than healthy, age-matched controls, independent of functional capacity. Interventions are needed to encourage a reduction in overall sedentary time, and regular breaks in prolonged periods of sedentary ...
Jennifer Hall   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond “#endpjparalysis”, tackling sedentary behaviour in health care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Reducing sedentary behaviour after hospitalization starts with reducing sedentary behaviour whilst in hospital. Although we have eradicated immobilisation as a therapeutic tool due to its potent detrimental effects, it is still in systemic use within ...
Chastin, Sebastien F.M.   +5 more
core   +4 more sources

Exploring adults’ experiences of sedentary behaviour and participation in non-workplace interventions designed to reduce sedentary behaviour: a thematic synthesis of qualitative studies

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2019
Background Sedentary behaviour is any waking behaviour characterised by an energy expenditure of ≤1.5 metabolic equivalent of task while in a sitting or reclining posture.
G. H. Rawlings   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Interventions for reducing sedentary behaviour in community-dwelling older adults [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows: To identify the effects and assess the effectiveness of interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour (total sedentary time and the pattern of accumulation of sedentary
Adams   +44 more
core   +2 more sources

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