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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
?Sitting for long periods increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease and death, researchers suggest? BBC News reports.
The news is based on the findings of a review which summarised the results of all the observational studies that had looked at the association between the time spent sitting or lying down whilst awake (sedentary behaviour) and the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and death due to cardiovascular disease (such as heart attack) or any cause.
The link between worsening health outcomes and time spent sitting first became apparent in the 1950s when researchers found that London bus drivers were twice as likely to have heart attacks as their bus conductor colleagues.
http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/health/having-desk-job-doubles-risk-of-heart-attack-1-5030300
The news is based on the findings of a review which summarised the results of all the observational studies that had looked at the association between the time spent sitting or lying down whilst awake (sedentary behaviour) and the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and death due to cardiovascular disease (such as heart attack) or any cause.
The link between worsening health outcomes and time spent sitting first became apparent in the 1950s when researchers found that London bus drivers were twice as likely to have heart attacks as their bus conductor colleagues.
http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/health/having-desk-job-doubles-risk-of-heart-attack-1-5030300