NCT03101228

Medical and Physiological Benefits of Reduced Sitting

Medical and Physiological Benefits and Mechanisms of Reduced Sitting Without Meeting the Current Physical Activity Recommendations

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 64 (actual)
• Sponsor: Turku University Hospital · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The most important objective of this randomized controlled trial in subjects with increased cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors is to investigate whether only reduced daily sitting improves human cardiovascular and metabolic health during a six-month intervention. It is hypothesized and expected that only reduced sitting, without formal physical activity or exercise training, affects favorably cardiovascular and metabolic health.

Conditions

• Metabolic Syndrome
• Physical Activity
• Insulin Resistance
• Cardiovascular Diseases

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Reduced sitting	Subjects are guided to limit their sitting time during the day for 1 hour/day, by adding light activity with the help of an activity monitor. Subjects are not encouraged to increase their moderate to vigorous physical activity levels.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-04-25
• Primary completion: 2020-02-14
• Completion: 2020-03-04
• First posted: 2017-04-05
• Last updated: 2020-04-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland