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BJGP Open, 2022 Background: General practice is a highly sedentary occupation, with many GPs spending more than 10.5 hours sitting each workday. This excessive sedentary behaviour and lack of physical activity (PA) is potentially detrimental to the health of GPs, as ...
Richard S Mayne +4 more
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Diet, physical activity, sedentary behaviour and perceptions of the environment in young adults [PDF]
, 2009 Background Few studies have explored both food behaviour and physical activity in an environmental context. Most research in this area has focused on adults; the aim of the present study was to describe perceptions of the environment, diet, physical ...
Adamson, Ashley +4 more
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What are the most effective behaviour change techniques to promote physical activity and/or reduce sedentary behaviour in inactive adults? : A systematic review protocol [PDF]
, 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative ...
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BMC Geriatrics, 2023 Background Sedentary behaviour is considered to contribute to sarcopenia when combined with physical inactivity. Whether sedentary behaviour is independently associated with sarcopenia remains controversial.
Yihan Mo +4 more
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Sedentary behaviours during pregnancy: a systematic review [PDF]
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2017 In the general population, at least 50% of time awake is spent in sedentary behaviours. Sedentary behaviours are activities that expend less energy than 1.5 metabolic equivalents, such as sitting. The amount of time spent in sedentary behaviours is a risk factor for diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and death from all causes ...
Fazzi, Caterina +4 more
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Scientific ReportsThis study aimed to investigate the rate of sedentary behaviour and differences in physical outcomes and activities of daily living (ADL) based on sedentary behaviour time of hospitalized older cardiovascular disease patients undergoing phase I cardiac ...
Kazuhiro P. Izawa +11 more
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Not all sedentary behaviour is equal: Children’s adiposity and sedentary behaviour volumes, patterns and types [PDF]
Obesity Research & Clinical Practice, 2018 The importance of different constructs of sedentary behaviours in relation to childhood obesity is uncertain. Thus, this study aimed to investigate relationships between volume, patterns and types of sedentary behaviour and adiposity in children.A case-control study was undertaken involving 234 children aged 10-13years who were either of a healthy ...
Rima N. Shakir +4 more
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PLoS ONETreatment and management of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) includes physical activity, nutrition, and pharmacological management. Recently, the importance of reducing and breaking up sedentary behaviour has become recognized.
Siobhan Smith +5 more
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Appropriateness of the definition of 'sedentary' in young children : whole-room calorimetry study [PDF]
, 2015 The present study aimed to measure the energy cost of three common sedentary activities in young children to test whether energy expended was consistent with the recent consensus definition of 'sedentary' as 'any behaviour conducted in a sitting or ...
Cliff, Dylan P. +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2017 ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to examine the association of sedentary behaviour patterns with frailty in older people.SettingClinical setting.DesignCross-sectional, observational study.Participants and measurementsA triaxial accelerometer was used ...
Borja Del Pozo-Cruz +8 more
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