Sentence examples for a set of sedentary from inspiring English sources

The first aim of our study was to investigate the self-reported time spent by older persons on a set of sedentary activities, and to compare this with objective sedentary time measured by accelerometry.

This is one of the first studies to relate self-reported time spent by older persons on a set of multiple sedentary activities to objectively assessed sedentary time using accelerometry.

A set of six sedentary activities from our newly developed questionnaire showed the highest correlation with total objective sedentary time (r = 0.46) and performed best in terms of ranking people's total sedentary time.

To determine which set of sedentary activities allowed an optimal ranking of older men and women with regard to sedentary time, Spearman correlation coefficients were calculated for the summed self-reported times of all possible combinations of sedentary activities and total objective sedentary time from accelerometry.

The best performing set of sedentary activities proved to include six different activities.

Finally, we tested the reliability of our newly developed questionnaire containing the best performing set of sedentary activities.

Finally we tested the reliability of our newly developed questionnaire using the best performing set of sedentary activities.

The second aim was to determine what set of sedentary activities should be used to validly rank older people's sedentary time, using accelerometry as the reference method.

In a sensitivity analysis we investigated the association between the total time spent on the best performing set of sedentary activities and the total objective sedentary time, using the results of a weekday or those of a weekend day instead of an average day.

The set of sedentary activities that correlated best (r = 0.46, p < 0.05) with objective sedentary time and could therefore be used to optimally rank people's total sedentary time consisted of six activities: napping, reading, listening to music, watching TV, hobby, and talking to friends.

Sedentary lifestyle combined with smoking, contributes to the development of a set of chronic diseases and to accelerating the course of aging.