Revisiting a Familiar but Lethal Cardiovascular Risk Factor: Sedentary Lifestyle

exercise remains an important ingredient to sprinkle into any recipe for achieving cardiovascular health, the duration that one spends sitting is, by itself, a potentially lethal risk factor. In this editorial, I will first examine the influence of physical inactivity as a major, independent and lethal risk factor for heart disease and for mortality from any cause and then summarize some of the evidence and strategies for ameliorating its potentially harmful effects.