sitting time and cardiometabolic risk factors in african american overweight women坐着时间和代谢疾病危险因素在非裔美国人超重的妇女.pdf

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Obesity Volume 2012, Article ID 803467, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2012/803467 Research Article Sitting Time and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in African American Overweight Women Rebecca E. Lee, Scherezade K. Mama, and Ygnacio Lopez III Texas Obesity Research Center, Department of Health and Human Performance, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Rebecca E. Lee, releephd@ Received 30 November 2011; Revised 3 February 2012; Accepted 26 February 2012 Academic Editor: David John Stensel Copyright © 2012 Rebecca E. Lee et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Findings from previous research linking sedentary time with cardiometabolic risk factors and body composition are inconsistent, and few studies address population groups most vulnerable to these compromising conditions. The purpose of this paper was to investigate the relationship of sitting time to cardiometabolic risk factors and body composition among African American women. A subsample of African American women (N = 135) completed health and laboratory assessments, including measures of blood pressure, resting heart rate, cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose, body mass index, body fat, sitting time, and demographics. Simultaneous, adjusted regression models found a positive association between weekend sitting time and glucose and an inverse association between weekly sedentary time and cholesterol (ps . 05). There were no significant associations between sedentary behavior and body composition. The unexpected relationship between sedentary time and cholesterol suggests