Get Up! How a Sedentary Life Can Bring on an Early Death
Measuring the results
So, how did the researchers manage to measure how much time these participants spent sitting? Hip-mounted accelerometers. These devices not only tracked the amount of time spent sitting, but also analyzed the risks of death within each participant.
During the span of the study, 340 deaths in the participants occurred. However, these were from a wide array of causes, not necessarily related to sitting time.
When the researchers looked further into their data, they found that sedentary behavior was responsible for approximately 12.3 hours of an average 16-hour waking day. Diaz explains the reason behind this ratio, "As we age, and our physical and mental function declines, we become more and more sedentary."
