Sedentary behaviour and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality, and incident type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose response meta-analysis

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2018, Pages 811-829

  Patterson, Richard ^a   McNamara, Eoin ^b   Tainio, Marko ^b   de Sá, Thiago Hérick ^c   Smith, Andrea D ^d   Sharp, Stephen J ^b   Edwards, Phil ^e   Woodcock, James ^b   Brage, Søren ^b   Wijndaele, Katrien ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Meta analysis; Mortality; Prevention; Public health; Sedentary

Indexed keywords

ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DOSE RESPONSE; EMBASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY RISK; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REVIEW; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEB OF SCIENCE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; TELEVISION; TIME FACTOR;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; TELEVISION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85044441519     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: 15737284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-018-0380-1     Document Type: Review

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