Stand up for your heart
Even if you exercise regularly, spending much of the day sitting may be bad for your heart.
- Reviewed by Christopher P. Cannon, MD, Editor in Chief, Harvard Heart Letter; Editorial Advisory Board Member, Harvard Health Publishing
"We've known very little about the potential consequences of sedentary behavior beyond the vague awareness that too much sitting is probably not good for you," says Dr. Ezimamaka Ajufo, a cardiovascular medicine fellow at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital. So she and colleagues took a close look at how movement habits influenced heart disease risk in 90,000 people listed in the UK Biobank, a large database in the United Kingdom that began collecting health information in 2006.
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About the Author
Julie Corliss, Executive Editor, Harvard Heart Letter
About the Reviewer
Christopher P. Cannon, MD, Editor in Chief, Harvard Heart Letter; Editorial Advisory Board Member, Harvard Health Publishing
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