At 68 years, AAI was 0.89±0.21, 1.01±0.13 and 1.05±0.11, respectively, in men who were sedentary, reported some physical activity, and regular physical training (p=0.0002).
The sedentary reported greater activity limitation, poorer quality of life and poorer physical health as well as performing less well on some functional tests; timed up and go & chair stand.
The non-sedentary group reported sedentary behaviour for fewer than 4 h/day on fewer than 5 days/week.
A significant proportion (95% nomadic, 95% semi-nomadic; 98% sedentary) of the respondents (Table 4) noted that land subdivision has affected the household herd sizes in the study area, with the majority (93, 96, and 88% in nomadic, semi-nomadic, and sedentary respectively) reporting a declining effect on their trend.
Interestingly, physical activity was the only health behaviour associated with unmet needs, with sedentary survivors reporting higher odds of unmet psychological, and physical and daily living needs.
Of particular interest we found that workers with mainly sedentary jobs reported the highest sitting time outside of work on both workdays and non-workdays, and reported the highest sedentary entertainment time (on workdays).
The few (21% in nomadic, 27% in semi nomadic, 33% in sedentary) who reported an increase in household herd size attributed it to either accumulation of more livestock through purchases, as well as rapid herd growths following good pasture years.
Significant numbers of men and women over 30, 40 and 50 years of age and with generally sedentary lifestyles reported occasional tramping during which they carried backpacks weighing up to 29% of their body weight for more than five hours over 11 15 km/day.
Intervention studies which helped children decrease their sedentary time reported desirable changes in body weight and BMI [ 43].
Most participants described their jobs as "sedentary" and reported that weight had no effect on their work functioning.
