作者
J Lennert Veerman, Genevieve N Healy, Linda J Cobiac, Theo Vos, Elisabeth AH Winkler, Neville Owen, David W Dunstan
发表日期
2012/10/1
期刊
British journal of sports medicine
卷号
46
期号
13
页码范围
927-930
出版商
British Association of Sport and Excercise Medicine
简介
Background
Prolonged television (TV) viewing time is unfavourably associated with mortality outcomes, particularly for cardiovascular disease, but the impact on life expectancy has not been quantified. The authors estimate the extent to which TV viewing time reduces life expectancy in Australia, 2008.
Methods
The authors constructed a life table model that incorporates a previously reported mortality risk associated with TV time. Data were from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study, a national population-based observational survey that started in 1999–2000. The authors modelled impacts of changes in population average TV viewing time on life expectancy at birth.
Results
The amount of TV viewed in Australia in 2008 reduced life expectancy at birth by 1.8 years (95% uncertainty interval (UI): 8.4 days to 3.7 years) for men and 1.5 years (95% UI: 6.8 days to 3 …
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