A new study has found that older women spend 9.7 hours a day in sedentary behavior, excluding sleep. These findings were published as a research letter in the December 18 issue of JAMA. Led by Eric J.

Older women who are sedentary for long periods of time throughout the day are at a significantly higher risk of cardiovascular events compared with women who sit less, according to the results of a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Prolonged sedentary time was associated with incident atrial fibrillation in older women, but adjustment for ...

Even with regular physical activity, older women (ages 50-79) who spend more waking hours in sedentary behaviors, such as sitting or lying down, have an increased risk of heart failure serious enough ...

Clocking up 6 or more hours of sedentary leisure time every day may double a woman’s risk of uterine fibroids before she’s gone through the menopause, suggests research published in the open access ...

The negative health effects of a sedentary lifestyle are well known, but young professionals are not the only ones affected. New research investigates the impact of low physical activity on the ...

Women in a Chinese study who sat for more than six hours each day faced substantially higher odds of developing uterine fibroids before menopause, a new study has found. Overall, more sedentary women ...

A prospective study underscores the benefits of being mobile for reducing cardiovascular disease (CVD) in older women and suggests that the way sedentary time is accumulated might be equally relevant ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For this analysis, investigators included 80,982 women (mean age, 63 years; 85% white; 6% current smokers) from ...

The sharp rise of more than 20 minutes a day in average sedentary time among newly retired women seems to be maintained 2 or more years later, reveals new research. The sharp rise of more than 20 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A community program that promotes healthy eating and exercise may help overweight, sedentary women reduce their risk factors for heart disease, according to a new study.