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Occupational sitting time, leisure physical activity, and all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality

JAMA Network Open

2024-01-19
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About The Study: In this study involving 481,000 individuals over a mean follow-up period of nearly 13 years, individuals who predominantly engaged in sitting at work exhibited a higher risk of mortality from all causes and cardiovascular disease compared with those who predominantly did not sit. Individuals who predominantly sit at work would need to engage in an additional 15 to 30 minutes of physical activity per day to mitigate this increased risk and reach the same level of risk as individuals who predominantly do not sit at work.

Authors: Chi-Pang Wen, M.D., Ph.D., of the National Health Research Institutes in Miaoli County, Taiwan, and Min-Kuang Tsai, Ph.D., of Taipei Medical University in New Taipei City, Taiwan, are the corresponding authors. 

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(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.50680)

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