Sedentary behaviour and disease risk

Joseph Henson; Marieke De Craemer; Thomas Yates

doi:10.1186/s12889-023-16867-2

Sedentary behaviour and disease risk

BMC Public Health. 2023 Oct 19;23(1):2048. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-16867-2.

Authors

Joseph Henson¹, Marieke De Craemer², Thomas Yates³

Affiliations

¹ NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Diabetes Research Centre, College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester, LE5 4PW, Leicester, UK. jjh18@leicester.ac.uk.
² Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
³ NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Diabetes Research Centre, College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester, LE5 4PW, Leicester, UK.

Abstract

Sedentary behaviour has become the new reference of living, which has paralleled the increase in the prevalence of multiple chronic diseases. Here, we highlight the evidence to date and propose specific topics of interest for the Collection at BMC Public Health, titled "Sedentary behaviour and disease risk".

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Disease*
Humans
Risk Factors
Sedentary Behavior*