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. 2018 Mar 28;33(9):811–829. doi: 10.1007/s10654-018-0380-1

Table 2.

Summary linear estimates of associations between sedentary behaviour (hours/day) with major chronic disease outcomes from random-effects meta-analysis

Outcome (cases/n baseline) Exposure (number of contributing studies for non-PA adjusted/PA adjusted estimates) Without PA adjustment With PA adjustment
Summary RR (95%CI) p value RR = 1 I2 (%) p value non-linearity Summary RR (95%CI) p value RR = 1 I2 (%) p value non-linearity
All-cause mortality (110,395/1,138,042) Total sedentary behaviour (12/13) 1.03 (1.02, 1.04) < 0.001 49.7 < 0.001 1.02 (1.01, 1.03) < 0.001 65.6 < 0.001
TV viewing (7/7) 1.07 (1.04, 1.09) < 0.001 70.9 < 0.001 1.05 (1.04, 1.05) < 0.001 0 < 0.001
CVD mortality (24,042/667,524) Total sedentary behaviour (6/5) 1.03 (1.02, 1.03) < 0.001 0 0.001 1.02 (1.01, 1.03) 0.004 22.7 0.010
TV viewing (5/6) 1.05 (1.02, 1.09) 0.005 90.1 0.203 1.04 (1.01, 1.08) 0.028 88.8 < 0.001
Cancer mortality (35,241/684,673) Total sedentary behaviour (6/5) 1.01 (1.00–1.02) 0.212 84.1 0.168 1.01 (1.00, 1.02) 0.268 77.3 0.326
TV viewing (4/4) 1.03 (1.02, 1.04) < 0.001 0 0.642 1.02 (1.01, 1.03) < 0.001 0 0.648
Type 2 diabetes (17,552/400,292) Total sedentary behaviour (4) [Insufficient number of studies] 1.01 (1.00, 1.01) < 0.001 0 0.529
TV viewing (5/6) 1.12 (1.08, 1.16) < 0.001 65.9 0.767 1.09 (1.07, 1.12) < 0.001 31.7 0.066