Associations of sitting behaviours with all-cause mortality over a 16-year follow-up: the Whitehall II study | Zendy

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Associations of sitting behaviours with all-cause mortality over a 16-year follow-up: the Whitehall II study

Author(s) -

Richard Pulsford,

Emmanuel Stamatakis,

Annie Britton,

Eric J. Brunner,

Melvyn Hillsdon

Publication year - 2015

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/dyv191

Subject(s) - sitting , medicine , demography , prospective cohort study , cohort study , proportional hazards model , risk factor , cohort , epidemiology , relative risk , gerontology , physical therapy , confidence interval , surgery , pathology , sociology

Sitting behaviours have been linked with increased risk of all-cause mortality independent of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA). Previous studies have tended to examine single indicators of sitting or all sitting behaviours combined. This study aims to enhance the evidence base by examining the type-specific prospective associations of four different sitting behaviours as well as total sitting with the risk of all-cause mortality.

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