Women who sat for 11.7 hours a day had a 30 percent higher risk of mortality than those who for 8.1 hours a day. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

A growing body of work conducted in healthy and clinical populations indicates that high levels of sedentary behaviour are associated with increased systemic inflammation independent of the ...

Being sedentary for more than six hours a day greatly increased the risk of neck pain, according to a systematic research review published in the journal BMC Public Health. The review’s authors looked ...

Correspondence to Anna Myers, School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK; a.myers{at}leeds.ac.uk Background There is considerable disagreement about the association between ...

Leonie Heron and colleagues say that as well as sedentary behavior causing thousands of deaths per year, sitting or lying for six hours or more per day is at the root of the £424m per year spent on ...

In older adults, increased sedentary time was associated with smaller brain volume, greater neurodegeneration, and worse cognitive performance, especially among apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 carriers, ...

Higher levels of sedentary behaviour in early to mid-pregnancy were associated with an increased risk for preeclampsia — especially severe and preterm forms, whereas higher levels of physical activity ...

Sedentary behavior is defined as any waking activity with an energy expenditure of ≤1.5 metabolic equivalents (METs) while in a sitting or reclining posture. Essentially, this means that any activity ...

Although sedentary behavior may be an evolutionarily selected trait, it is still important to try to be physically active, says a new study. Researchers have shown for the first time that genetic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The risk of death was heightened by sedentary time for frail adults who were inactive, according to findings ...