Association between various sedentary behaviours and all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality: the Multiethnic Cohort Study
Author(s) -
Yeon-Ju Kim,
Lynne R. Wilkens,
SongYi Park,
Marc T. Goodman,
Kristine R. Monroe,
Laurence N. Kolonel
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyt108
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , sitting , demography , cohort , cohort study , confidence interval , ethnic group , epidemiology , gerontology , cause of death , disease , sociology , pathology , anthropology
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.
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