Associations of sedentary behavior, sedentary bouts and breaks in sedentary time with cardiometabolic risk in children with a family history of obesity.

Although reports in adults suggest that breaks in sedentary time are associated with reduced cardiometabolic risk, these findings have yet to be replicated in children.To investigate whether objectively measured sedentary behavior, sedentary bouts or breaks in sedentary time are independently associ...

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Main Authors: Travis John Saunders, Mark Stephen Tremblay, Marie-Ève Mathieu, Mélanie Henderson, Jennifer O'Loughlin, Angelo Tremblay, Jean-Philippe Chaput, QUALITY cohort research group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3835898?pdf=render