Interrupting prolonged sitting with walking and stairs climbing for an improved cardiometabolic risk profile

• Main Author: Lee, Yan Xuan
• Other Authors: Burns Stephen Francis
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Science::General
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/78939
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Background: Sedentary behavior (SB), strongly associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality, has emerged as a new health-related research focus, especially with its rising prevalence. Interrupting SB has been shown to attenuate the rise in postprandial plasma glucose concentra...