242
Views
4
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
INVITED EDITORIAL

Sedentary women: sit less, live more!

Pages 770-772 | Received 28 Mar 2015, Accepted 01 Apr 2015, Published online: 14 Apr 2015

References

  • Seguin R, Buchner DM, Liu J, et al. Sedentary behavior and mortality in older women: the Women’s Health Initiative. Am J Prev Med 2014;46:122–35
  • Chomistek AK, Manson JE, Stefanick ML, et al. Relationship of sedentary behavior and physical activity to incident cardiovascular disease: results from the Women’s Health Initiative. J Am Coll Cardiol 2013;61:2346–54
  • Manson JE, Greenland P, LaCroix AZ, et al. Walking compared with vigorous exercise for the prevention of cardiovascular events in women. N Engl J Med 2002;347:716–25
  • Li TY, Rana JS, Manson JE, et al. Obesity as compared with physical activity in predicting risk of coronary heart disease in women. Circulation 2006;113:499–506
  • Hu FB, Stampfer MJ, Colditz GA, et al. Physical activity and risk of stroke in women. JAMA 2000;283:2961–7
  • Santa-Clara H, Szymanski L, Ordille T, Fernhall B. Effects of exercise training on resting metabolic rate in postmenopausal African American and Caucasian women. Metabolism 2006;55:1358–64
  • Monninkhof EM, Elias SG, Vlems FA, et al. Physical activity and breast cancer: a systematic review. Epidemiology 2007;18:137–57
  • Winzer BM, Whiteman DC, Reeves MM, Paratz JD. Physical activity and cancer prevention: a systematic review of clinical trials. Cancer Causes Control 2011;22:811–26
  • Wilson LF, Page AN, Dunn NA, et al. Population attributable risk of modifiable risk factors associated with invasive breast cancer in women aged 45–69 years in Queensland, Australia. Maturitas 2013;76:370–6
  • Feskanich D, Willett W, Colditz G. Walking and leisure-time activity and risk of hip fracture in postmenopausal women. JAMA 2002;288:2300–6
  • Herrera A, Mateo J, Gil-Albarova J, et al. Prevalence of osteoporotic vertebral fracture in Spanish women over age 45. Maturitas 2015;80:288–95
  • Kim KZ, Shin A, Lee J, Myung SK, Kim J. The beneficial effect of leisure-time physical activity on bone mineral density in pre- and postmenopausal women. Calcif Tissue Int 2012;91: 178–85
  • Kelley GA, Kelley KS, Kohrt WM. Effects of ground and joint reaction force exercise on lumbar spine and femoral neck bone mineral density in postmenopausal women: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2012;13:177
  • Blair SN, LaMonte MJ. How much and what type of physical activity is enough? What physicians should tell their patients. Arch Intern Med 2005;165:2324–5
  • Warburton DE, Nicol CW, Bredin SS. Prescribing exercise as preventive therapy. CMAJ 2006;174:961–74
  • Nikander R, Gagnon C, Dunstan DW, et al. Frequent walking, but not total physical activity, is associated with increased fracture incidence: a 5-year follow-up of an Australian population-based prospective study (AusDiab). J Bone Miner Res 2011;26: 1638–47
  • Appleby PN, Allen NE, Roddam AW, Key TJ. Physical activity and fracture risk: a prospective study of 1898 incident fractures among 34,696 British men and women. J Bone Miner Metab 2008;26:191–8
  • Armstrong ME, Green J, Reeves GK, et al. Frequent physical activity may not reduce vascular disease risk as much as moderate activity: Large prospective study of UK women. Circulation 2015;131:721–9
  • Hallal PC, Andersen LB, Bull FC, et al. Lancet Physical Activity Series Working Group. Global physical activity levels: surveillance progress, pitfalls, and prospects. Lancet 2012;380: 247–57
  • Huxley RR. Physical activity: can there be too much of a good thing? Circulation 2015;131:692–4

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.