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Prolonged Sitting and Poor Sleep Can Work Together To Shorten Your Life (latimes.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the so-stop-reading-and-go-to-bed dept.

schwit1 sends word that a new study published in PLOS Medicine has examined how lifestyle risk factors can affect mortality rates, both alone and in combination with each other. Having a single major risk factor increased mortality rates slightly, but the study found that those who report multiple risk factors are significantly more likely to die early. While this includes obvious behavior like smoking and alcohol consumption, the findings also suggest prolonged sitting and unhealthy sleep patterns can strongly increase mortality rates when combined with each other, or with the obvious behaviors. "Some combinations were more deadly than others, the researchers found. Those who blended insufficient exercise with prolonged sitting were 2.42 times more likely to die during the study, and those who were also guilty of sleeping for too many hours were 4.23 times more likely die by the time the study ended. 'These findings suggest there is a "synergistic effect" among risk factors,' the study authors wrote."

3 of 115 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Correlation != causation by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually, fat is implicated in increased hunger by numerous studies.

    " Scientists from the Lawson Health Research Institute (part of the University of Western Ontario) believe that they have found the reason that people with extra belly fat are hungrier than others. According to their study published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), fat cells around the abdomen produce an appetite-inducing hormone known as Neuropeptide Y (NPY)."

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    She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
  2. As a trucker.... by Computershack · · Score: 3, Interesting

    .....I'm royally fucked. 12-15hr shifts mostly sat on my arse driving or waiting, 6hrs a day of broken sleep and to top it off I work nights as well. Already got a fucked back and am overweight, both of which are very common in the job. On the bright side at least I'll be dead long before my medical care gets really expensive.

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    I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams
  3. Re:Correlation != causation by nbauman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You beat me to it.

    Citation needed.

    http://www.healthnewsreview.or...

    "Frequent fish consumption was associated with a 50% reduction in the relative risk of dying from a heart attack." Her editor's reaction? Slash. Too wordy, too passive. The editor's rewrite? "Women who ate fish five times a week cut their risk of dying later from a heart attack by half."

      https://www.elsevier.com/conne...