Association between various sedentary behaviours and all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality: the Multiethnic Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It has been proposed that time spent sitting increases all-cause mortality, but evidence to support this hypothesis, especially the relative effects of various sitting activities alone or in combination, is very limited.

Methods

The association between various sedentary behaviours (time spent: sitting watching television (TV); in other leisure activities; in a car/bus; at work; and at meals) and mortality (all-cause and cause-specific) was examined in the Multiethnic Cohort Study, which included 61 395 men and 73 201 women aged 45-75 years among five racial/ethnic groups (African American, Latino, Japanese American, Native Hawaiian and White) from Hawaii and Los Angeles, USA.

Results

Median follow-up was 13.7 years and 19 143 deaths were recorded. Total dai

SUBMITTER: Kim Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3781003 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature