Occupational Sitting Time, Leisure Physical Activity, and All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

For the first time, the 2020 World Health Organization guidelines on physical activity recommended reducing sedentary behaviors owing to their health consequences. Less is known on the specific association of prolonged occupational sitting with health, especially in the context of low physical activity engagement.

Objective

To quantify health risks associated with prolonged occupational sitting and to determine whether there is a certain threshold of physical activity that may attenuate it.

Design, setting, and participants

This prospective cohort study included participants in a health surveillance program in Taiwan who were followed-up between 1996 and 2017. Data on occupational sitting, leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) habits, lifestyle, and metabol

SUBMITTER: Gao W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10799265 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature