Effects of Interrupting Prolonged Sitting with Light-Intensity Physical Activity on Inflammatory and Cardiometabolic Risk Markers in Young Adults with Overweight and Obesity: Secondary Outcome Analyses of the SED-ACT Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial

Sascha W. Hoffmann; Janis Schierbauer; Paul Zimmermann; Thomas Voït; Auguste Grothoff; Nadine Wachsmuth; Andreas Rössler; Tobias Niedrist; Helmut Lackner; Othmar Moser

doi:10.3390/biom14081029

August 19, 2024BiomoleculesOpen Access

Effects of Interrupting Prolonged Sitting with Light-Intensity Physical Activity on Inflammatory and Cardiometabolic Risk Markers in Young Adults with Overweight and Obesity: Secondary Outcome Analyses of the SED-ACT Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial

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Light-intensity physical activity breaks target inflammatory markers and cardiometabolic risk markers to counteract the deleterious effects of uninterrupted sedentary behavior.
Study evaluated seventeen adults with a mean body mass index of 29.7 kg/m2, comparing uninterrupted sitting against brief physical activity snacks.
Highlights the therapeutic potential of frequent movement to mitigate cardiovascular disease risk, though small sample limitations warrant further broad investigations.

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Reports cardiometabolic risk marker changes after light activity breaks in young adults with obesity, highlighting strategies to reduce sedentary risk.

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Sedentary behavior (SB) is an essential risk factor for obesity, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes. Though certain levels of physical activity (PA) may attenuate the detrimental effects of SB, the inflammatory and cardiometabolic responses involved are still not fully understood. The focus of this secondary outcome analysis was to describe how light-intensity PA snacks (LIPASs, alternate sitting and standing, walking or standing continuously) compared with uninterrupted prolonged sitting affect inflammatory and cardiometabolic risk markers. Seventeen young adults with overweight and obesity participated in this study (eight females, 23.4 ± 3.3 years, body mass index (BMI) 29.7 ± 3.8 kg/m

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