Sedentary Behaviour Epidemiology

Introduction to Sedentary Behaviour Epidemiology.- Measurement of Sedentary Behaviour in Population Studies.- Analysis and Interpretation of Sedentary Behaviour Data.- The Descriptive Epidemiology of Sedentary Behaviour.- Physiologic Responses to Sedentary Behaviour.- Sedentary Behaviour and Adiposity.- Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT) and Adiposity.- Sedentary Behaviour, Diabetes, and the Metabolic Syndrome.- Sedentary Behaviour and Cardiovascular Disease.- Sedentary Behaviour and Cancer.- Sedentary Behaviour and Depression.- Sedentary Behaviour and Psychosocial Health across the Life Course. Sedentary Behaviour and Aging.- Sedentary Behaviour and Mortality.- Models for Understanding Sedentary Behaviour.- Sedentary Behaviour at the Individual Level: Correlates, Theories, and Interventions.- Specific Interventions Targeting Sedentary Behaviour in Children and Adolescents.- Workplace Programs Aimed at Limiting Occupational Sitting.- Approaches to Decrease Sedentary Behaviour Among the Elderly.- Interventions Directed at Reducing Sedentary Behaviour in Persons with Pre-existing Disease or Disability.- Specific Approaches to Reduce Sedentary Behaviour in Overweight and Obese People.- Programs Targeting Sedentary Behaviour Among Ethnic Minorities and Immigrants.- Sedentary Behaviour at the Community Level: Correlates, Theories, and Interventions.- Sedentary Behaviour and the Social and Physical Environment.- Targeting Sedentary Behaviour at the Policy Level.- Dynamics of Sedentary Behaviours and Systems-Based Approach: Future Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Course Epidemiology of Sedentary Behaviours.- Genetics of Sedentariness.- Limitations in Sedentary Behaviour Research and Future Research Needs.