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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 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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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).
Fonseca, Hélder +4 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 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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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.
Pedro B, Júdice +4 more
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Active Workstations to Fight Sedentary Behaviour
Sports Medicine, 2014The impact of active workstations has been studied in several settings, and several outcomes have been investigated. However, the effects on health, work performance, quality of life, etc., have never been systematically reviewed.To evaluate the existing literature about active workstations and their possible positive health and work performance ...
Torbeyns, Tine +3 more
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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
Hardy, Louise L +4 more
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Designing Games to Discourage Sedentary Behaviour
2014Regular physical activity has many physical, cognitive and emotional benefits. Health researchers have shown that there are also risks to too much sedentary behaviour, regardless of a person’s level of physical activity, and there are now anti-sedentary guidelines alongside the guidelines for physical activity.
Kevin Stanley +2 more
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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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