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Association of Sedentary Behaviour with Metabolic Syndrome: A Meta-Analysis [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Background: In recent years there has been a growing interest in the relationship between sedentary behaviour (sitting) and health outcomes. Only recently have there been studies assessing the association between time spent in sedentary behaviour and the
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Sedentary behaviour and health
2023Abstract Changes in environments, modes of transportation, and the pervasiveness of screen-based technology have significantly reduced the demands and opportunities for physical activity and increased the opportunities for time spent sitting.
Natalie Pearson, Lauren B Sherar
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Sedentary Behaviour and Adiposity
2017Obesity is thought to represent an intermediate variable in the pathway linking sedentary behaviour to the development of chronic disease, yet its role in the sedentary behaviour context has not been resolved. Numerous cross-sectional studies, prospective studies, and randomized controlled trials have examined the potential obesogenic effect of ...
Carmen Jochem +2 more
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Sedentary Behaviour and Ageing
2017This 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.
Dawn A. Skelton +2 more
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Sedentary Behaviour and Cancer
2017How sedentary behaviour affects cancer risk is still largely unknown. This chapter summarizes the modest, but growing, body of evidence accrued to date. Based on the findings of 25 different studies that have examined 17 different cancer sites, all-cancer mortality, and site-specific mortality (colorectal and liver cancer), we conclude that sedentary ...
Brigid M. Lynch +2 more
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Sedentary behaviour and adiposity in elite athletes
Journal of Sports Sciences, 2014Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a health risk. Even in athletes an increased adiposity affects health and performance. Sedentary behaviour has been associated with higher levels of adiposity, independent of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.
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[Sedentary behaviour and health].
Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Arzte des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany)), 2016Exercise-related public health recommendations and research for increased fitness and health had long focused on vigorous exercise or the lack thereof. Recently scientific interest in possible effects of sedentary behaviour (SB) (sitting) independent of moderate-vigorous intensity exercise has been growing.We conducted a selective literature search in ...
E, Füzéki, L, Vogt, W, Banzer
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Sedentary Behaviour and Mortality
2017Throughout the past century, non-communicable diseases have formed the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for 68% of all deaths globally in 2012. In recent decades, the increase in non-communicable disease has coincided with a decrease in daily energy expenditure due to the advent of time- and labour-saving technologies (particularly in the ...
Megan S. Grace, David W. Dunstan
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Lifelong Sedentary Behaviour and Femur Structure
International Journal of Sports Medicine, 2011The aim of the present study was to analyze the lifelong differences of femur structure in sedentary and physically active animal models. Thirty male C57BL/6 mice, 2 months old, were either: i) housed in cages with running wheel (AA; n=10), ii) housed in cages without running wheel (AS; n=10), iii) or sacrificed without intervention (Y; n=10).
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Sedentary behaviours among Australian adolescents
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2006To describe the prevalence and distribution (by demographic characteristics and body mass index [BMI] category) of sedentary behaviour among Australian adolescents aged 11-15 years.Cross-sectional representative population survey of school students (n = 2,750) in New South Wales, conducted in 2004. Students' self-reported time spent during a usual week
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