Sedentary behaviour and health: Strengthening the evidence base

[...]a brief introduction and overview will provide the relevant definitions and a broad explanation of the range of investigative methods and study designs that have been used to gather evidence on the health consequences of too much sitting and on the feasibility and likely benefits of changing sedentary behaviours. [...]the ability of both self-report and device-based measures to capture intervention change remains poorly understood, and the research potential of device-based measures has been severely under-utilized. [...]user-friendly systems for storing and processing the vast volumes of data generated from activity models need to be established. Exemplary research project: mechanisms Our recent experimental findings provide promising evidence that breaking up prolonged sitting time with short activity breaks can lead to beneficial effects on glucose control, blood pressure, blood viscosity parameters and insulin sensitivity; however, the contributions of breaking up prolonged sitting have not yet been experimentally tested in T2D patients, who are...