Too much sitting and all-cause mortality: Is there a causal link?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Biddle, Stuart J H ^a,b   Bennie, Jason A ^a   Bauman, Adrian E ^c   Chau, Josephine Y ^c   Dunstan, David ^{b,d,e,f,g,h,i}   Owen, Neville ^b,j   Stamatakis, Emmanuel ^c,k   Van Uffelen, Jannique G Z ^a,b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

ⁱ AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY POSITION; CAUSE OF DEATH; HUMAN; LITERATURE; PREMATURE MORTALITY; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE;

CAUSE OF DEATH; HUMANS; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; POSTURE; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE;

EID: 84979503824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3307-3     Document Type: Article

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