Association of the COVID-19 pandemic with changes in objectively measured sedentary behaviour and adiposity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several studies have reported that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has increased sedentary behaviour and obesity; however, these analyses used self-reported data, and the association between sedentary behaviour and visceral fat and adipocytokines during the COVID-19 pandemic remains unclear. We aimed to investigate the association of the COVID-19 pandemic with objectively measured sedentary behaviour and these obesity-related factors.

Methods

Longitudinal analysis was conducted on 257 Japanese participants who underwent health check-ups in 2018 before and in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. For both time points, sedentary behaviour was measured using an accelerometer for at least 7 days, visceral fat area (VFA) was measured using abdominal bioelectri

SUBMITTER: Kinoshita K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9931562 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature