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Professor David Dunstan is the Laboratory Head for Physical Activity at the Baker Institute
A remotely delivered sitting reduction intervention was feasible in older adults and successfully reduced sitting time
Older adults can experience significant barriers to undertaking sufficient amounts of physical activity – these findings indicate that an initial focus on reducing sitting time can successfully reduce blood pressure and may therefore provide a promising ‘pathway’ to having more older adults adopt active living patterns.
Findings show that even small reductions in sitting time (~30 mins daily) can result in meaningful blood pressure reductions in older adults that are commensurate with the effects that have reported following aerobic physical activity interventions.
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