December 9, 2020
A paper titled “Confounding due to pre-existing diseases in epidemiological studies on sedentary behavior and all-cause mortality: a meta-epidemiological study“ has recently been published in the […]
December 2, 2020
A new paper titled “Joint associations of accelero-meter measured physical activity and sedentary time with all-cause mortality: a harmonised meta-analysis in more than 44 000 middle-aged […]
November 26, 2020
New WHO 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour have just been launched. These guidelines update the previous WHO recommendations released in 2010 and provide evidence-based […]
November 18, 2020
Today’s post comes from Dr Nyssa Hadgraft, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Urban Transitions at Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia), describing their […]
November 13, 2020
A new paper titled “Longitudinal associations of sedentary time and physical activity duration and patterns with cognitive development in early childhood” was recently published in the […]
November 12, 2020
WHO will be holding a webinar to mark the launch of the new Guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour on 26 November 2020 at 16:00 […]
November 4, 2020
Device-assessed physical activity and sedentary behavior in a community-based cohort of older adults
A paper titled “Device-assessed physical activity and sedentary behavior in a community-based cohort of older adults” was recently published in the BMC Public Health. The summary […]
October 28, 2020
Today’s blog post comes from Andrea Mayo, a PhD student in the Department of Health at Dalhousie University (Canada). More about Andrea can be found at […]
October 22, 2020
A paper entitled “Popliteal flow-mediated dilatory responses to an acute bout of prolonged sitting between earlier and later phases of natural menstrual and oral contraceptive pill […]