ArticlePloS one2017
Energy Cost of Standing in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort: Are Energy-Savers a Minority or the Majority?
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- Energy expenditure differences across lying, sitting, and standing positions in young healthy adults.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Cardiometabolic and neuromuscular analyses of the sit-to-stand transition to question its role in reducing sedentary patterns.European journal of applied physiology · 2022Article
- Metabolic profile in women differs between high versus low energy spenders during a low intensity exercise on a cycle-desk.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Concurrent and discriminant validity of ActiGraph waist and wrist cut-points to measure sedentary behaviour, activity level, and posture in office work.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Can Physical Activity While Sedentary Produce Health Benefits? A Single-Arm Randomized Trial.Sports medicine - open · 2020Article
- Measuring Sedentary Behavior by Means of Muscular Activity and Accelerometry.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Standing economy: does the heterogeneity in the energy cost of posture maintenance reside in differential patterns of spontaneous weight-shifting?European journal of applied physiology · 2017Article
- Posture Allocation Revisited: Breaking the Sedentary Threshold of Energy Expenditure for Obesity Management.Frontiers in physiology · 2017Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe disease risks associated with sedentary behavior are now firmly established, and consequently there is much interest in methods of increasing low-intensity physical activity. In this context, it is a widely held belief that altering posture allocation can modify energy expenditure (EE) to impact upon body weight regulation and health. However, we recently showed the existence of two distinct phenotypes pertaining to the energy cost of standing-with the majority of a Caucasian cohort showing no sustained increase in EE during standing relative to sitting. Here we investigated whether this phenomenon is also observed across a multi-ethnic male cohort.
objectiveTo determine the magnitude and time-course of changes in EE and respiratory quotient (RQ) during steady-state standing versus sitting, and to explore inter-individual variability in these responses across 4 ethnic groups (European, Indian, Chinese, African).
designMin-by-min monitoring using posture-adapted ventilated-hood indirect calorimetry was conducted in 35 healthy, men (20-43 years) during 10 min of steady-state standing versus sitting comfortably.
results69% of subjects showed little or no increase (<5%) in EE during standing compared to sitting (energy savers). Furthermore, the proportion of energy savers did not significantly differ between ethnic groups, despite ethnic differences in anthropometry; with body weight as the primary predictor of the energy cost of standing maintenance (r2 = 0.30, p = 0.001).
conclusionOur results indicate that the majority of individuals in a multi-ethnic cohort display a postural energy-saver phenotype. The mechanisms by which the large majority of individuals appear to maintain sitting and standing postures at the same energetic cost remains to be elucidated but is of considerable importance to our understanding of the spontaneous physical activity compartment of EE and its potential as a target for weight regulation.
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