Does "sedentary" describe your behavior in early adulthood? Turns out, that inactivity may lead to an increased risk of heart disease by middle age. In a study presented this week at the American Heart Association's Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism conference in San Francisco, researchers said they measured the frequency of TV watching and exercising in 5,629 men and women, beginning at age 23, in 1981. Then at age 44, they measured daily TV watching and exercise habits--along with 15 biological “cardiometabolic” risk factors.
"Television watching during early to mid adulthood was associated independently with the metabolic and haemostatic risk factor profiles at age 44,” researchers said, adding that public health guidelines should consider adding explicit references to TV viewing time.
Read the HealthDay story.
Read the American Heart Association summary.
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