Differences in Free-Living Patterns of Sedentary Behaviour between Office Employees with Diabetes and Office Employees without Diabetes: A Principal Component Analysis for Clinical Practice.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To identify principal components of free-living patterns of sedentary behaviour in office employees with type 2 diabetes (T2D) compared to normal glucose metabolism (NGM) office employees, using principal component analysis (PCA).

Methods

213 office employees (n = 81 with T2D; n = 132 with NGM) wore an activPAL inclinometer 24 h a day for 7 consecutive days. Comparions of sedentary behaviour patterns between adults with T2D and NGM determined the dimensions that best characterise the sedentary behaviour patterns of office employees with T2D at work, outside work and at weekends.

Results

The multivariate PCA technique identified two components that explained 60% of the variability present in the data of sedentary behaviour patterns in the population

SUBMITTER: Colomer FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9566776 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature