Validity and reliability of the Arabic sedentary behavior questionnaire among university students aged between 18–30 years old
March 25, 2024Re-post: Childhood sedentariness accelerates premature vascular damage
April 11, 2024Thanks so much to Dr. Andrew Agbaje for sharing this interview with Endocrine Society in Washington! This interview was used as the cover story for the March edition of Endocrine News.
Some highlights include:
- In a 13-year study of activity and lipid levels in participants ages 11 through 24, increasing sedentary time was associated with increasing low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglyceride, and total cholesterol.
- Increased light physical activity (LPA) (i.e., reduced sedentary time) reduced total cholesterol by five- to eight-fold and was significantly less subject to the effect of fat mass than was moderate-to-vigorous intensity exercise.
- Recommending instituting cholesterol screening in adolescence, when reversing damage is still possible, and engaging in at least three to four hours per day of LPA could be helpful to include in future guidelines.
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Image: Andrew Agbaje, Endocrine News
Dr Agbaje’s research group (urFIT-child) is supported by research grants from Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, the Finnish Cultural Foundation Central Fund, the Finnish Cultural Foundation North Savo Regional Fund, the Orion Research Foundation, the Aarne Koskelo Foundation, the Antti and Tyyne Soininen Foundation, the Paulo Foundation, the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation, the Paavo Nurmi Foundation, the Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research, Ida Montin Foundation, the Foundation for Pediatric Research, and Alfred Kordelin Foundation.
For further information, please contact:
Andrew Agbaje, MD, MPH, PhD, FESC, FAHA, Cert. Clinical Research (Harvard), Associate Professor (Docent) of Clinical Epidemiology and Child Health, Principal Investigator (urFIT-child). Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland. a.agbaje@exeter.ac.uk, +358 46 896 5633
Honorary Research Fellow – Children’s Health and Exercise Research Centre, Public Health and Sports Sciences Department, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. a.agbaje@exeter.ac.uk
https://uefconnect.uef.fi/en/person/andrew.agbaje/
Link to the article:
Agbaje AO. Associations of Sedentary Time and Physical Activity From Childhood with Lipids: A 13-Year Mediation and Temporal Study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2023 Dec 14:dgad688. https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgad688
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Based at the University of Bristol, Children of the 90s, also known as the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), is a long-term health research project that enrolled more than 14,000 pregnant women in 1991 and 1992. It has been following the health and development of the parents, their children and now their grandchildren in detail ever since. It receives core funding from the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust and the University of Bristol.
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