Health coaching intervention may reduce sitting time and improve BP in older adults: JAMA
A new Kaiser Permanente study found that a health coaching intervention successfully reduced sitting time for a group of older adults by just over 30 minutes a day. Study participants also showed meaningful improvements in blood pressure, comparable to the effect of other interventions focused on physical activity.
The study was published in JAMA Network Open and included 283 Kaiser Permanente Washington members aged 60-89.
Older adults typically sit for between 65 and 80 percent of the hours that they are awake, and strong evidence shows that sedentary time is associated with health risks like heart disease and diabetes. In the study, sitting less throughout the day led to a mean change in blood pressure of almost 3.5 millimeters of mercury (mmHg), comparable to reductions of 4 mmHg found in studies of increased physical activity and 3 mmHg in studies of weight loss.
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