- Title
- Blood pressure response to interrupting workplace sitting time with non-exercise physical activity: Results of a 12-month cohort study
- Creator
- Mainsbridge, Casey; Ahuja, Kiran; Williams, Andrew; Bird, Marie-Louise; Cooley, Dean; Pedersen, Scott
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/187693
- Identifier
- vital:17119
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000001377
- Identifier
- ISSN:1076-2752
- Abstract
- OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the blood pressure (BP) effects of a yearlong e-health solution designed to interrupt prolonged occupational sitting time. METHODS:BP data of 228 desk-based employees (45.1 ± 10.5 years) were analyzed at baseline, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months. RESULTS:Systolic BP significantly reduced from baseline for the first 9 months (1.0 to 3.4 mmHg P < 0.01) while diastolic and mean arterial pressure decreased for the full 12-months (4 to 5 mmHg for diastolic pressure and 3.6 to 4.2 mmHg for MAP all P < 0.01).Participants used the e-health solution 5.5 ± 2.0 times/day in the first 3 months which reduced to 4.2 ± 2.5 times/day by the end of the study (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS:An e-health solution designed to increase non-exercise physical activity by interrupting sitting time in the workplace is feasible and produced long-term reductions in blood pressure.
- Publisher
- United States: Copyright by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- Relation
- Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Vol. 60, no. 9 (2018), p. 769-774
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Rights
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- Blood; Blood pressure; Cohort analysis; Control; Diastolic pressure; e-health; Exercise; Health; Health aspects; Hypertension; Occupational health; Original; Physical activity; Physical training; Posture; Pressure effects; Preventative medicine; Public health; Workplace health; 3505 Human resources and industrial relations; 4206 Public health
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