abstract background: a wealth of study shows that increasing rbmi accompanies with physical inactivity, consequently. the aims of this study were determining the distribution of daily physical activity amount by gender in obese and overweight students methods: this is a cross-sectional descriptive study carried out to determine the distribution of daily physical activity level by genders and re...

OBJECTIVE To investigate determinants of physical inactivity among adolescents aged 15 to 19 years in the city of Recife, northeastern Brazil. METHOD This case-control study involved 597 private school students aged 15 to 19 years selected by convenience sampling. Exclusion criteria were adolescents with diseases that interfered with or hindered anthropometric measurements, who were being tre...

A sedentary lifestyle is a very serious worldwide problem, especially in North America and Europe. Unfortunately, physical inactivity, which has progressively increased over the past several decades, significantly increases the risk of numerous diseases/disorders, including several forms of cancer, diabetes, hypertension, coronary and cerebrovascular diseases, overweight/obesity, and all-cause ...

BACKGROUND Studies in western countries have revealed that excessive sedentary behavior is a major risk factor for physical inactivity in adolescents. This study was performed to investigate the association between sedentary behavior and physical inactivity in Chinese adolescents using a large-scale cross-sectional survey design. METHODS This study was part of the 2011 Chinese Youth Risk Beha...

BACKGROUND This prospective longitudinal study investigates whether suspected motor problems and low preference for active play in childhood are associated with physical inactivity and low cardiorespiratory fitness in adolescence. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The study sample consisted of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 (NFBC 1986) composed of 5,767 children whose parents responded t...

BACKGROUND Depressed older individuals have a higher mortality than older persons without depression. Depression is associated with physical inactivity, and low levels of physical activity have been shown in some cohorts to be a partial mediator of the relationship between depression and cardiovascular events and mortality. METHODS A cohort of 5888 individuals (mean 72.8 ± 5.6 years, 58% fema...

New research into physical activity suggests that it is no longer sufficient just to meet minimum levels recommended by health guidelines in order to reduce cardiovascular risk. Both physical inactivity and sedentary behavior have their own health hazards and need to be addressed separately, in order to explore their different deleterious mechanisms. The aim of this review was to define and to ...

2016 has been an exciting year for research in physical activity, inactivity and health. Recognition of the importance of all physical behaviours (physical activity, sedentary time and sleep) across the 24 h day continues to grow. Notable advances have included: applications of recent methodological innovations that account for the co-dependence of the behaviours in the finite 24 h period showi...

In their excellent Comment (July 21, p. 192), Wen and Wu make a strong case for investing in behaviour change interventions to promote more physical activity in the inactive population. They list several helpful approaches, such as optimizing the available infrastucture and building skills of the inactive. However, their main recommendation is to stress the harms of physical inactivity, and rec...