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ArticleBioMed research international2014

A study of sedentary behaviour in the older Finnish twin cohort: a cross sectional analysis.

Maarit Piirtola, Jaakko Kaprio, Annina Ropponen

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Article in BioMed research international, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Prenatal, birth and early life predictors of sedentary behavior in young people: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2016
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  6. Heritability of objectively assessed and self-reported sedentary behavior.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Maarit PiirtolaDepartment of Public Health, Hjelt Institute, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 41 (Mannerheimintie 172), 00014 Helsinki, Finland ; UKK Institute, Centre for Health Promotion Research, Tampere, Finland.ORCID 0000-0001-7270-6676
Jaakko KaprioDepartment of Public Health, Hjelt Institute, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 41 (Mannerheimintie 172), 00014 Helsinki, Finland ; Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 30 (Mannerheimintie 166), 00300 Helsinki, Finland ; Institute for Molecular Medicine (FIMM), University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 20 (Tukholmankatu 8), 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
Annina RopponenFinnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 aA, 00250 Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0003-3031-5823

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of age, sex, and body mass index (BMI) on total sitting time among the Finnish twin cohort. Also, heritability and environmental factors were analysed. The final sample included 6713 twin individuals 53-67 years of age (46% men). Among them there were 1940 complete twin pairs (732 monozygotic [MZ] and 1208 dizygotic [DZ] twin pairs). Sedentary behaviour was queried with a self-reported questionnaire with multiple-choice questions about sitting time at different domains. The mean total sitting time per day was 6 hours 41 minutes (standard deviation: 2 hours 41 minutes). The total sitting time was less in women than in men (P = 0.002). Older age was associated with less total sitting time (P < 0.001). Those with higher body mass index had higher total sitting time in age and sex adjusted analysis (P < 0.001). MZ pairs were more similar for sitting time than DZ pairs, with initial estimates of heritability for the total sitting time of 35%.The influence of shared environmental factors was negligible (1%), while most (64%) of the variation could be ascribed to unique environmental factors, the latter including measurement error.

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Sedentary BehaviorAgedBody Mass IndexCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleFinlandHumansMaleMiddle AgedRegression AnalysisSurveys and QuestionnairesTwins

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PMCPMC4009300

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