• Interruptions to time spent sitting can ameliorate detrimental metabolic-health consequences of high volumes of sedentary time, but their potential mental health benefits have not been examined. (nature.com)
  • The mean daily duration of sedentary behavior is 8.3 hours among the Korean population and 7.7 hours among the American adult population. (researchgate.net)
  • Increased sedentary time impairs the gravitostat, the body's weight homeostat, and weight gain, adiposity, and elevated chronic inflammation caused by sedentary behavior are risk factors for cancer. (researchgate.net)
  • Patients with rheumatoid arthritis spend most of their daily hours in sedentary behavior (sitting), a predisposing factor to poor health-related outcomes and all-cause mortality. (edu.au)
  • Findings will be of scientific and clinical relevance with the potential to inform new prescriptions focused on reducing sedentary behavior, a modifiable risk factor that thus far has been overlooked in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. (edu.au)
  • With sedentary behavior increasing in prevalence, longer-term studies of similar interventions to reduce and break up sitting time are warranted. (lww.com)
  • Stroke survivors are consistently reported as being more sedentary than healthy age-matched controls, spending more hours sedentary daily and sustaining longer unbroken bouts of sedentary time. (bvsalud.org)
  • Desk-based office workers typically accumulate high amounts of daily sitting time, often in prolonged unbroken bouts. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Excessive time spent in sedentary behaviours (sitting or lying with low energy expenditure) is associated with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some cancers. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Accordingly, reducing time spent in sedentary behaviours has the potential to improve cardiometabolic health, and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease. (biomedcentral.com)
  • UK Chief Medical Officer Physical Activity Guidelines recommend that older adults minimise the amount of time spent being sedentary and break up long periods of inactivity with light physical activity when physically possible or at least standing [ 4 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Not only are office workers sedentary most of their time at work, they also tend to sit for prolonged, uninterrupted periods of time. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This study provides evidence that avoiding periods of prolonged uninterrupted sedentary time may be important for reducing cardiometabolic disease risk in children. (altmetric.com)
  • INTRODUCTION: Stroke survivors spend long periods of time engaging in sedentary behaviour (SB) even when their functional recovery is good. (bvsalud.org)
  • After adjustment for confounders, the odds of having hypertriglyceridaemia (P = 0.03) and an increased clustered cardiometabolic risk score (P = 0.05) were significantly higher in children who engaged in more prolonged sedentary bouts per day. (altmetric.com)
  • The number of breaks in sedentary time per day was not associated with any cardiometabolic risk factor, but longer mean duration of daily breaks in sedentary time were associated with a lower odds of having abdominal adiposity (P = 0.04) and elevated diastolic blood pressure (P = 0.01). (altmetric.com)
  • INTRODUCTION: Sedentary behaviour (sitting or lying during waking hours without being otherwise active) is strongly associated with adverse health outcomes, including all-cause, cancer and cardiovascular mortality in adults. (bvsalud.org)
  • A study published in the US publication, the Annals of Internal Medicine in October 2017, found both the total volume of sedentary time and its accrual in prolonged, uninterrupted bouts are associated with all-cause mortality. (hsmsearch.com)
  • Sedentary lifestyles are spreading worldwide because of a lack of available spaces for exercise, increased occupational sedentary behaviors such as office work, and the increased penetration of television and video devices. (researchgate.net)
  • When viewed in relation to the approximated 7000 steps/day required of older adults in order to meet health recommendations [ 21 ], the activity patterns of people with PD reflect sedentary lifestyles [ 22 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The research involved 519 children, comparing active children to those who had more sedentary lifestyles. (cuckooland.com)
  • Detrimental associations of sedentary behaviour with major depression and other mental disorders have also been reported 9 . (nature.com)
  • Breaking sedentary behaviour with regular standing increases physical function in frail older adults [ 3 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Adults in such countries spend the largest proportion of their day in sedentary behaviour, most of which is accumulated at work. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In healthy adults, the impairment of vascular function associated with prolonged sitting can be mitigated with intermittent brief bouts of activity. (lww.com)
  • Older adults with obesity spend the majority of their waking hours sedentary. (edu.au)
  • Sedentary " included people with PD with high absolute and relative time spent in Sedentary behaviour (SB), little time light intensity physical activity (LIPA) and negligible moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). (biomedcentral.com)
  • PA is a multidimensional behaviour that can be described using a variation of measures such as, absolute or relative time spent in different intensities of sedentary behaviour (SB), light intensity physical activity (LIPA) and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), by total time in bouts or through variation over a day. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Workshop format was informed by the behaviour change wheel (BCW) framework for developing interventions and incorporated systematic review and empirical evidence. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Interventions focused on reducing sedentary time could be of novel therapeutic relevance. (edu.au)
  • The developed intervention is primarily based on co-produced solutions to barriers to achieving the target behaviour. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Given substantial barriers to regular physical activity in this population, approaches to reduce sedentary time could be an effective health promotion strategy. (edu.au)
  • thus, breaking up long uninterrupted bouts of sedentary behaviour could have substantial health benefit. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Sedentary behaviour (sitting) is a prevalent feature of everyday living and is now increasingly being considered as a clinical and public health concern in addition to too little exercise [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, there are no intervention strategies specifically aimed at reducing sedentary behaviour tailored for stroke survivors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The target behaviour for stroke survivors is to increase standing and moving, and the target behaviour for caregivers and staff is to support and encourage stroke survivors to increase standing and moving. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Methods: Thirteen sedentary (7 female) participants undertook three, 5 h trials in random order: 1) uninterrupted sitting (SIT), 2) seated with 2 min bouts of light-intensity walking every 20 min (SIT+LA), and 3) seated with 2 min bouts of moderate-intensity walking every 20 min (SIT+MA). (shu.ac.uk)
  • Compared to those who never/rarely interrupted their sedentary time, those who reported interruptions sometimes, often and very often had 0.72 (95% CI = 0.65-0.80), 0.59 (95% CI = 0.53-0.65), and 0.53 (95% CI = 0.46-0.59) lower odds of depression/anxiety symptoms, respectively. (nature.com)
  • In stratified analyses, more frequent interruptions to sedentary time were associated with lower odds of depression/anxiety symptoms, except among those in the lowest interruptions categories (never/25% of the time). (nature.com)
  • The potential hazards of prolonged sitting in the workplace were first highlighted as early as the 17th century when the distinguished occupational physician Ramazzini [ 13 ] reported that relationships between sedentary behaviour and deleterious health consequences were evident in workers whose occupations required them to sit for long hours. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The pernicious health effects of this ubiquitous behaviour has led to significant changes in physical activity recommendations, which now recognise the importance of reducing sedentary time in addition to maintaining adequate levels of daily physical activity 3 , 7 . (nature.com)
  • The purpose of this study was to use co-production approaches to develop an intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour after stroke. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, the health risks posed by sedentary behaviors are not well known. (researchgate.net)
  • Therefore, reducing sedentary behaviors and increasing physical activity are both important to promote public health. (researchgate.net)
  • The Take a STAND for Health study is a 4-month, parallel-group, randomized controlled trial, in which postmenopausal patients with rheumatoid arthritis will set individually tailored, progressive goals to replace their sedentary time with standing and light-intensity activities. (edu.au)
  • We can have standing meetings, we can walk during the lunch break, and we can look to reduce TV viewing in the evenings by seeking out less sedentary behaviours. (hsmsearch.com)
  • Sedentary behaviors reduce lipoprotein lipase activity, muscle glucose, protein transporter activities, impair lipid metabolism, and diminish carbohydrate metabolism. (researchgate.net)
  • Logistic regression models assessed associations of sedentary time, and the frequency of interruptions to sedentary time, with depression/anxiety symptoms. (nature.com)
  • Sedentary " people had poorer balance ( P = 0.006), poorer functional mobility ( P = 0.027) and were more likely to have fallen previously ( P = 0.027), compared to " Light Movers . (biomedcentral.com)
  • This cross-sectional design study analysed accelerometry-determined sedentary behaviour and physical activity collected over 7 days from 111 (66 girls) UK schoolchildren. (altmetric.com)
  • The choice of criterion for removal of non-wear time might have a profound influence on physical activity (PA) and sedentary time (SED) estimates. (springer.com)
  • In a meta-analysis, compared to non-occasional/occasional sedentary behaviour, the risk of depression related to the highest categories of sedentary time was 31% higher over 13 cross-sectional studies, and 14% higher over 11 prospective studies 10 . (nature.com)
  • We aim to investigate the feasibility and efficacy of a newly developed intervention focused on reducing sedentary time, and potential clinical, physiological, metabolic and molecular effects in rheumatoid arthritis. (edu.au)
  • Such interruptions to sitting time have been variably defined, but generally involve either a standing interruption to extended sedentary time and/or ambulation (i.e., 'active' interruption). (nature.com)
  • Sedentary " ( N = 68), " Light Movers " ( N = 115), " Steady Movers " ( N = 118). (biomedcentral.com)
  • In a randomized crossover trial, 13 physically inactive women with PCOS (18-45 yr) completed two 3.5-h conditions: 1) uninterrupted sitting (SIT) and 2) sitting interrupted by 3-min bouts of SRA every 30 min. (lww.com)