Open AccessA Prospective Study of Sedentary Behavior and Changes in the Body Mass Index Distribution
Author(s) -
Jonathan A. Mitchell,
Matteo Bottai,
Yikyung Park,
Simon Marshall,
Stephen Moore,
Charles E. Matthews
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
medicine and science in sports and exercise
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.703
H-Index - 224
eISSN - 1530-0315
pISSN - 0195-9131
DOI - 10.1249/mss.0000000000000366
Subject(s) - percentile , body mass index , confidence interval , medicine , demography , sitting , screen time , obesity , prospective cohort study , statistics , mathematics , pathology , sociology
We aimed to determine whether baseline sedentary behavior was associated with changes in body mass index (BMI) over 9 yr.