• 2020 WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour for children and adolescents aged 5–17 years: Summary of the evidence 

      Chaput, Jean-Philippe; Willumsen, Juana F.; Bull, Fiona; Chou, Roger; Ekelund, Ulf; Firth, Joseph; Jago, Russell; Ortega, Francisco B.; Katzmarzyk, Peter T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) released in 2020 updated global guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour for children, adolescents, adults, older adults and sub-populations such as pregnant ...
    • Joint associations of physical activity and sedentary time with adiposity during adolescence: ALSPAC 

      Kwon, Soyang; Ekelund, Ulf; Kandula, Namratha R.; Janz, Kathleen F. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background: In developing evidence-based physical activity (PA) guidelines for youth, a knowledge gap exists regarding the health effects of sedentary time (SED). The aim of this study was to determine the joint associations ...
    • New global guidelines on sedentary behaviour and health for adults: Broadening the behavioural targets 

      Dempsey, Paddy; Buman, Matthew P.; Chastin, Sebastien; Ekelund, Ulf; Friedenreich, Christine M.; Katzmarzyk, Peter T.; Leitzmann, Michael F.; Stamatakis, Emmanuel; van der Ploeg, Hidde P.; Willumsen, Juana F.; Bull, Fiona; Biddle, Stuart J. H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Background: In 2018, the World Health Organisation (WHO) commenced a program of work to update the 2010 Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health, for the first-time providing population-based guidelines on ...
    • Physical activity: Associations with health and summary of guidelines 

      Borodulin, Katja; Anderssen, Sigmund Alfred (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The understanding of how physical activity and insufficient physical activity are associated with health outcomes has increased considerably over the past decades. Along with physical activity, the evidence on the associations ...
    • Striking the right balance: Evidence to inform combined physical activity and sedentary behavior recommendations 

      McGregor, Duncan E.; Cardon, Greet; Chaput, Jean-Philippe; Dall, Philippa M.; Dempsey, Paddy C.; DiPietro, Loretta; Ekelund, Ulf; Katzmarzyk, Peter T.; Leitzmann, Michael; Stamatakis, Emmanuel; van der Ploeg, Hidde P.; Chastin, Sebastien F. M.; Biddle, Stuart J. H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background: Crucial evidence gaps regarding: (1) the joint association of physical activity and sedentary time with health outcomes and (2) the benefits of light intensity physical activity were identified during the ...