Prolonged Leisure Time Spent Sitting in Relation to Cause-Specific Mortality in a Large US Cohort.

ABSTRACT: The majority of leisure time is spent in sedentary behaviors such as television viewing. Studies have documented that prolonged leisure-time sitting is associated with higher risk of mortality-total, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and "all other causes"-but few have examined the "other" causes of death in detail. To examine associations of leisure-time sitting with risk of specific causes of death, we analyzed data from the Cancer Prevention Study II (CPS-II) Nutrition Cohort, a prospective US cohort including 127,554 men and women who were free of major chronic disease at study entry, and among whom 48,784 died during 21 years of follow-up (1993-2014; median follow-up, 20.3 years, interquartile range, 4.6 years). After multivariable adjustment, prolonged leisure-time sitting (≥6 vs. <3 h

SUBMITTER: Patel AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6454412 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature