Sedentary behavior and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality: a science advisory from the American Heart Association

DR Young, MF Hivert, S Alhassan, SM Camhi… - Circulation, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Epidemiological evidence is accumulating that indicates greater time spent in sedentary
behavior is associated with all-cause and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in adults …

Lifelogging: Personal big data

C Gurrin, AF Smeaton, AR Doherty - Foundations and Trends® …, 2014 - nowpublishers.com
We have recently observed a convergence of technologies to foster the emergence of
lifelogging as a mainstream activity. Computer storage has become significantly cheaper …

Sedentary behaviors in today's youth: approaches to the prevention and management of childhood obesity: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

TA Barnett, AS Kelly, DR Young, CK Perry, CA Pratt… - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
This scientific statement is about sedentary behavior and its relationship to obesity and other
cardiometabolic outcomes in youth. A deleterious effect of sedentary behavior on …

Statistical machine learning of sleep and physical activity phenotypes from sensor data in 96,220 UK Biobank participants

M Willetts, S Hollowell, L Aslett, C Holmes, A Doherty - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Current public health guidelines on physical activity and sleep duration are limited by a
reliance on subjective self-reported evidence. Using data from simple wrist-worn activity …

A random forest classifier for the prediction of energy expenditure and type of physical activity from wrist and hip accelerometers

K Ellis, J Kerr, S Godbole, G Lanckriet… - Physiological …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Wrist accelerometers are being used in population level surveillance of physical activity (PA)
but more research is needed to evaluate their validity for correctly classifying types of PA …

[HTML][HTML] Definition, measurement, and health risks associated with sedentary behavior

BB Gibbs, AL Hergenroeder… - Medicine and science …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
PURPOSE and METHODS—Though evidence is accumulating that sedentary behavior
(SB), independent of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA), is associated …

Screen time and health indicators among children and youth: current evidence, limitations and future directions

TJ Saunders, JK Vallance - Applied health economics and health policy, 2017 - Springer
Despite accumulating evidence linking screen-based sedentary behaviours (ie screen time)
with poorer health outcomes among children and youth< 18 years of age, the prevalence of …

Watching the TV watchers

YC Zhang, JM Rehg - Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Studies have linked excessive TV watching to obesity in adults and children. In addition, TV
content represents an important source of visual exposure to cues which can effect a broad …

[HTML][HTML] Association between objectively measured physical activity and mortality in NHANES

EI Fishman, JA Steeves, V Zipunnikov… - Medicine and science …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose We examined total, light, and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) as
predictors of mortality in a nationally representative sample of older adults. Then, we …

Sedentary behavior and chronic disease: mechanisms and future directions

PC Dempsey, CE Matthews… - … of Physical Activity …, 2020 - journals.humankinetics.com
Background: Recent updates to physical activity guidelines highlight the importance of
reducing sedentary time. However, at present, only general recommendations are possible …