Sedentary behavior: Understanding and influencing adults' prolonged sitting time

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 535-539

  Owen, Neville ^a,b,c,d  

^a BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; NOTE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SITTING;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; POSTURE; RISK FACTORS; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84872403726     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.08.024     Document Type: Note

References (70)

1. Alkhajah T., Reeves M., Eakin E., Winkler E., Owen N., Healy G. Reducing sitting time in office workers: efficacy and acceptability of sit-stand workstations. Am. J. Prev. Med. 2012, 43:298-303.
2. Anuradha S., Dunstan D., Healy G., et al. Physical activity, television viewing time and retinal vascular calibre. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 2011, 43:289-86.
3. Anuradha S., Healy G., Dunstan D., et al. Physical activity, television viewing time and retinal microvascular caliber: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Am. J. Epidemiol. 2011, 173:518-525.
4. Bauman A., Ainsworth B., Sallis J., et al. The descriptive epidemiology of sitting. A 20-country comparison using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). Am. J. Prev. Med. 2011, 41:228-235.
5. Bennie J., Timperio A., Crawford D., Dunstan D., Salmon J. Associations between social ecological factors and self-reported short physical activity breaks during work hours among desk-based employees. Prev. Med. 2011, 53:44-47.
6. Brown W., Bauman A., Owen N. Stand up, sit down, keep moving: turning circles in physical activity research?. Br. J. Sports Med. 2009, 43:86-88.
7. Burton N., Haynes M., van Uffelen J., Brown W., Turrell G. Mid-aged adults' sitting time in three contexts. Am. J. Prev. Med. 2012, 42:363-373.
8. Chau J., van der Ploeg H., van Uffelen J., et al. Are workplace interventions to reduce sitting effective? A systematic review. Prev. Med. 2010, 51:352-356.
9. Chau J., van der Ploeg H., Dunn S., Kurko J., Bauman A. A tool for measuring workers' sitting time by domain: the Workforce Sitting Questionnaire. Br. J. Sports Med. 2011, 45:1216-1222.
10. Chau J., van der Ploeg H., Dunn S., Kurko J., Bauman A. Validity of the occupational sitting and physical activity questionnaire. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 2012, 44:118-125.
11. Chau J., van der Ploeg H., Merom D., Chey T., Bauman A. Cross-sectional associations between occupational and leisure-time sitting, physical activity and obesity in working adults. Prev. Med. 2012, 54:195-200.
12. Clark B., Sugiyama T., Healy G., Salmon J., Dunstan D., Owen N. Validity and reliability of measures of television viewing time and other non-occupational sedentary behavior of adults: a review. Obes. Rev. 2009, 10:7-16.
13. Clark B., Healy G., Winkler E., et al. Relationship of television time with accelerometer-derived sedentary time: NHANES. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 2011, 43:822-828.
14. Clark B., Thorp A., Winkler E., et al. Validity of self-report measures of workplace sitting time and breaks in sitting time. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 2011, 43:1907-1912.
15. De Cocker K., De Bourdeaudhuij I., Brown W., Cardon G. The effect of a pedometer-based physical activity intervention on sitting time. Prev. Med. 2008, 47:179-181.
16. De Cocker K., van Uffelen J., Brown W. Associations between sitting time and weight in young adult Australian women. Prev. Med. 2010, 51:361-367.
17. Ding D., Sugiyama T., Owen N. Habitual active transport, TV viewing and weight gain: a four year follow-up study. Prev. Med. 2012, 54:201-204.
18. Ding D., Sugiyama T., Winkler E., Cerin E., Wijndaele K., Owen N. Correlates of change in adults' television viewing time: a four-year follow-up study. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 2012, 44:1287-1292.
19. Dunstan D., Salmon J., Owen N., et al. Physical activity and television viewing in relation to risk of 'undiagnosed' abnormal glucose metabolism in adults. Diabetes Care 2004, 27:2603-2609.
20. Dunstan D., Salmon J., Owen N., et al. Associations of TV viewing and physical activity with the metabolic syndrome in Australian adults. Diabetologia 2005, 48:2254-2261.
21. Dunstan D., Salmon J., Healy G.N., et al. Association of television viewing with fasting and 2-hr post-challenge plasma glucose levels in adults without diagnosed diabetes. Diabetes Care 2007, 30:516-522.
22. Dunstan D., Barr E., Healy G., et al. Television viewing time and mortality: the AusDiab study. Circulation 2010, 121:384-391.
23. Dunstan D., Howard B., Healy G., Owen N. Too much sitting-a health hazard. Diabetes Res. Clin. Pract. 2012, 10.1016/j.diabres.2012.05.020.
24. Dunstan D., Kingwell B., Larsen R., et al. Breaking up prolonged sitting reduces postprandial glucose and insulin responses. Diabetes Care 2012, 35:976-983.
25. Garber C., Blissmer B., Deschenes M., et al. American College of Sports Medicine position stand. Quantity and quality of exercise for developing and maintaining cardiorespiratory, musculoskeletal, and neuromotor fitness in apparently healthy adults: guidance for prescribing exercise. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 2011, 43:1334-1359.
26. Gardiner P., Eakin E., Healy G., Owen N. Feasibility of reducing older adults' sedentary time. Am. J. Prev. Med. 2011, 41:174-177.
27. Gardiner P., Clark B., Healy G., Eakin E., Winkler E., Owen N. Measuring older adults' sedentary time: reliability, validity and responsiveness. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 2011, 43:2127-2133.
28. Hamilton M, Owen N, (in press). Sedentary behavior and inactivity physiology. In C. Bouchard, S.N. Blair, W. L. Haskell (Eds.) Physical Activity and Health, 2nd edition, Human Kinetics, Champaign, Illinois.
29. Hamilton M., Healy G., Dunstan D., Zderic T., Owen N. Too little exercise and too much sitting: inactivity physiology and the need for new recommendations on sedentary behavior. Curr. Cardiovasc. Risk Rep. 2008, 2:292-298.
30. Healy G., Dunstan D., Salmon J., et al. Objectively measured light-intensity physical activity is independently associated with 2-hr plasma glucose. Diabetes Care 2007, 30:1384-1389.
31. Healy G., Dunstan D., Salmon J., et al. Breaks in sedentary time: beneficial associations with metabolic risk. Diabetes Care 2008, 31:661-666.
32. Healy G., Dunstan D., Salmon J., Shaw J., Zimmet P., Owen N. Television time and continuous metabolic risk in physically-active adults. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 2008, 40:639-645.
33. Healy G., Wijndaele K., Dunstan D., et al. Objectively-measured sedentary time, physical activity and metabolic risk: the AusDiab study. Diabetes Care 2008, 31:369-371.
34. Healy G., Clark B., Winkler E., Gardiner P., Brown W., Matthews C. Measurement of adults' sedentary time in population-based studies. Am. J. Prev. Med. 2011, 41:216-227.
35. Healy G., Matthews C., Dunstan D., Winkler E., Owen N. Sedentary time and cardio-metabolic biomarkers in US adults: NHANES 2003-06. Eur. Heart J. 2011, 32:590-597.
36. Kozo J., Sallis J., Conway T., et al. Sedentary behaviors of adults in relation to neighborhood walkability and income. Health Psychol. 2012, 10.1037/a0027874.
37. Lakerveld J., Dunstan D., Bot S., et al. Abdominal obesity, TV-viewing time and prospective declines in physical activity. Prev. Med. 2011, 53:299-302.
38. Lynch B., Dunstan D., Healy G., Winkler E., Eakin E., Owen N. Objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time of breast cancer survivors, and associations with adiposity: findings from NHANES (2003-2006). Cancer Causes Control 2010, 21:283-288.
39. Lynch B., Dunstan D., Winkler E., Healy G., Eakin E., Owen N. Objectively-assessed physical activity, sedentary time and waist circumference among prostate cancer survivors: findings from NHANES (2003-2006). Eur. J. Cancer Care 2011, 20:514-519.
40. Lynch B., Friedenreich C., Winkler E., et al. Associations of objectively-assessed physical activity and sedentary time with biomarkers of breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women: findings from NHANES (2003-2006). Breast Cancer Res. Treat. 2011, 130:183-194.
41. Marshall A., Miller Y., Burton N., Brown W. Measuring total and domain-specific sitting: a study of reliability and validity. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 2010, 42:1094-1102.
42. Matthews C., Chen K., Freedson P., et al. Amount of time spent in sedentary behaviors in the United States, 2003-2004. Am. J. Epidemiol. 2008, 167:875-881.
43. Matthews C., George S., Moore S., et al. Amount of time spent in sedentary behaviors and cause-specific mortality in US adults. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 2012, 95:437-445.
44. Morabia A., Costanza M.C. Standin' on the dock of the bay, waistin'. Prev. Med. 2010, 51:343-344.
45. Morris J., Heady J., Raffle P., Roberts C., Parks J. Coronary heart-disease and physical activity of work. Lancet 1953, 265:1111-1120.
46. Oliver M., Schofield G., Badland H., Shepherd J. Utility of accelerometer thresholds for classifying sitting in office workers. Prev. Med. 2010, 51:357-360.
47. Owen N., Bauman A., Brown W. Too much sitting: a novel and important predictor of chronic disease risk?. Br. J. Sports Med. 2009, 43:81-82.
48. Owen N., Healy G., Matthews C., Dunstan D. Too much sitting: the population-health science of sedentary behavior. Exerc. Sports Sci. Rev. 2010, 38:105-113.
49. Owen N., Sparling P., Healy G., Dunstan D., Matthews C. Sedentary behavior: emerging evidence on a new health risk. Mayo Clin. Proc. 2010, 85:1138-1141.
50. Owen N., Sugiyama T., Eakin E., Gardiner P., Tremblay M., Sallis J. Adults' sedentary behavior: determinants and interventions. Am. J. Prev. Med. 2011, 41:189-196.
51. Paffenbarger R.S., Lee I., Kampert J. Physical activity in the prevention of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. World Rev. Nutr. Diet. 1997, 82:210-218.
52. Pate R., O'Neill J., Lobelo F. The evolving definition of "sedentary". Exerc. Sport Sci. Rev. 2008, 36:173-178.
53. Sallis J., Owen N. Physical Activity and Behavioral Medicine 1999, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
54. Sallis J., Owen N., Fotheringham M. Behavioral epidemiology: a systematic framework to classify phases of research on health promotion and disease prevention. Ann. Behav. Med. 2000, 22:294-298.
55. Speck R., Schmitz K.H. Energy expenditure comparison: a pilot study of standing instead of sitting at work for obesity prevention. Prev. Med. 2011, 52:283-284.
56. Sugiyama T., Salmon J., Dunstan D., Bauman A., Owen N. Associations of neighborhood walkability with TV viewing time among Australian adults. Am. J. Prev. Med. 2007, 33:444-449.
57. Sugiyama T., Healy G., Dunstan D., Salmon J., Owen N. Is television viewing time a marker of a broader pattern of sedentary behavior?. Ann. Behav. Med. 2008, 35:245-250.
58. Thorp A., Healy G., Owen N., et al. Deleterious associations of sitting time and television viewing time with cardio-metabolic risk biomarkers: AusDiab 2004-2005. Diabetes Care 2010, 33:327-334.
59. Thorp A., Owen N., Neuhaus M., Dunstan D. Sedentary behaviors and subsequent health outcomes: a systematic review of longitudinal studies, 1996-2011. Am. J. Prev. Med. 2011, 41:207-215.
60. Troiano R., Berrigan D., Dodd K., Masse L., Tilert T., McDowell M. Physical activity in the United States measured by accelerometer. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 2008, 40:181-188.
61. Tudor-Locke C., Burton N., Brown W. Leisure-time physical activity and occupational sitting: associations with steps/day and BMI in 54-59year old Australian women. Prev. Med. 2009, 48:64-68.
62. Vallance J., Winkler E., Gardiner P., Healy G., Lynch B., Owen N. Associations of objectively-assessed physical activity and sedentary time with depression: NHANES (2005-2006). Prev. Med. 2011, 53:284-288.
63. van der Ploeg H., Merom D., Chau J., Bittman M., Trost S., Bauman A. Advances in population surveillance for physical activity and sedentary behavior: reliability and validity of time use surveys. Am. J. Epidemiol. 2010, 172:1199-1206.
64. van der Ploeg H., Chey T., Korda R., Banks E., Bauman A. Sitting time and all-cause mortality risk in 222 497 Australian adults. Arch. Intern. Med. 2012, 172:494-500.
65. Van Dyck D., Cardon G., Deforche B., Owen N., Sallis J., De Bourdeaudhuij I. Neighborhood walkability and sedentary time in Belgian adults. Am. J. Prev. Med. 2010, 39:25-32.
66. Van Dyck D., Cardon G., Deforche B., et al. Socio-demographic, psychosocial and home-environmental attributes associated with adults' domestic screen time. BMC Public Health 2011, 11:668.
67. van Uffelen J., Heesch K., Brown W. Correlates of sitting time in working age Australian women: who should be targeted with interventions to decrease sitting time?. J. Phys. Act. Health 2012, 9:270-287.
68. Veerman J., Healy G., Cobiac L., et al. Television viewing time and reduced life expectancy: a life-table analysis. Br. J. Sports Med. 2011, 10.1136/bjsm.2011.085662.
69. Wijndaele K., Healy G., Dunstan D., et al. Increased cardio-metabolic risk is associated with increased TV viewing time. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 2010, 42:1511-1518.
70. Winkler E., Gardiner P., Clark D., Matthews C., Owen N., Healy G. Identifying sedentary time using automated estimates of accelerometer wear time. Br. J. Sports Med. 2012, 46:436-442.