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Total and domain‐specific sitting time among employees in desk‐based work settings in Australia [PDF]

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2015
Objective: To describe the total and domain‐specific daily sitting time among a sample of Australian office‐based employees. Methods: In April 2010, paper‐based surveys were provided to desk‐based employees (n=801) in Victoria, Australia. Total daily and
Jason A. Bennie, Zeljko Pedisic, Anna Timperio, David Crawford, David Dunstan, Adrian Bauman, Jannique van Uffelen, Jo Salmon   +7 more
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Validity of long-term and short-term recall of occupational sitting time in Finnish and Chinese office workers

Journal of Sport and Health Science, 2020
Background: As sedentary behavior is a global health issue, there is a need for methods of self-reported sitting assessment. The accuracy and reliability of these methods should also be tested in various populations and different cultural contexts.
Ying Gao, Neil J. Cronin, Nina Nevala, Taija Finni   +3 more
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A Greater Intrinsic, but Not External, Motivation Toward Physical Activity Is Associated With a Lower Sitting Time

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
BackgroundBoth reducing sitting and increasing physical exercise promote health but exercising more does not necessarily reduce sitting time. One reason for this non-dependency may be that different aspects of exercise motivation are differently related ...
Samad Esmaeilzadeh, Josune Rodriquez-Negro, Arto J. Pesola   +2 more
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Change in Physical Activity and Sitting Time After Myocardial Infarction and Mortality Among Postmenopausal Women in the Women's Health Initiative‐Observational Study

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2017
Background How physical activity (PA) and sitting time may change after first myocardial infarction (MI) and the association with mortality in postmenopausal women is unknown.
Anna M. Gorczyca, Charles B. Eaton, Michael J. LaMonte, JoAnn E. Manson, Jeanne D. Johnston, Aurelian Bidulescu, Molly E. Waring, Todd Manini, Lisa W. Martin, Marcia L. Stefanick, Ka He, Andrea K. Chomistek   +11 more
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Association between Sitting Time and Urinary Incontinence in the US population: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2007 to 2018

Heliyon
Background: Urinary incontinence (UI) is a common health problem that affects the quality of life and health of millions of people in the United States (US).
Xingpeng Di, Chi Yuan, Liyuan Xiang, Guanbo Wang, Banghua Liao   +4 more
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Parental Working Hours and Children’s Sedentary Time: A Cross-sectional Analysis of the J-SHINE

Journal of Epidemiology, 2022
Background: Sedentary behaviors are prevalent among children and can have a detrimental effect on their health. Little is known about the influence of parental time on children’s sedentary behavior.
Naoko Hatakeyama, Masamitsu Kamada, Naoki Kondo   +2 more
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Separate and joint associations of occupational and leisure-time sitting with cardio-metabolic risk factors in working adults: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: The workplace is a main setting for prolonged sitting for some occupational groups. Convincing evidence has recently accumulated on the detrimental cardio-metabolic health effects of leisure-time sitting.
Madina Saidj, Torben Jørgensen, Rikke K Jacobsen, Allan Linneberg, Mette Aadahl   +4 more
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Workplace sitting is associated with self-reported general health and back/neck pain: a cross-sectional analysis in 44,978 employees

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Total sitting time is associated with a higher risk for cardio metabolic disease and mortality, while breaks in prolonged sitting attenuate these effects.
Lena V. Kallings, Victoria Blom, Björn Ekblom, Tobias Holmlund, Jane Salier Eriksson, Gunnar Andersson, Peter Wallin, Elin Ekblom-Bak   +7 more
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Combined association of physical activity and sitting time with cardiometabolic risk factors in Chilean adults

Scientific Reports, 2023
In this study we examined the combined association of physical activity and sitting time with cardiometabolic risk factors in adults in Chile. This is a cross-sectional study based on 3201 adults aged from 18 to 98 years from the Chilean National Health ...
Esteban Estrada-Saldaña, Adilson Marques, Danilo R. Silva, Claudio Farías‑Valenzuela, Paloma Ferrero‑Hernández, Juan Guzman-Habinger, Leandro F. M. Rezende, Gerson Ferrari   +7 more
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Are temporal patterns of sitting associated with obesity among blue-collar workers? A cross sectional study using accelerometers

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background Little is known about associations of temporal patterns of sitting (i.e., distribution of sitting across time) with obesity. We aimed investigating the association between temporal patterns of sitting (long, moderate and brief uninterrupted ...
Nidhi Gupta, David M. Hallman, Svend Erik Mathiassen, Mette Aadahl, Marie Birk Jørgensen, Andreas Holtermann   +5 more
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