Physical inactivity in the United States has become a "crisis within a crisis," experts say. A new study published in the American Journal of Medicine investigated the link between social ...

Obesity, heart disease, and even an early death are some of the risks of physical inactivity. But what if we could put a dollar amount on the financial burden of an increasingly sedentary world?

A world-first study has revealed that in 2013, physical inactivity cost $67.5 billion globally in health-care expenditure and lost productivity, revealing the enormous economic burden of an ...

Worldwide, 7.2% of deaths from all causes and 7.6% of deaths from CVD were attributable to physical inactivity, according to recent data. Perspective from Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, MACP ...

The health implications of physical inactivity are truly a global issue with physical inactivity responsible for up to 8% of non-communicable diseases and deaths across the world, finds research ...

Objectives Physical inactivity is a risk factor for premature mortality and several non-communicable diseases. The purpose of this study was to estimate the global burden associated with physical ...

More than 1 in 7 adults across all U.S. states and territories are physically inactive, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show. The findings were compiled from 2015-2018 ...

University of Missouri scientists have found that just 10 days of physical inactivity can have negative effects on memory and learning. A recently-published study conducted on female rats shows for ...

A recent study by researchers from World Health Organization (WHO), together with academic colleagues and published in The Lancet Global Health journal, found that nearly one third (31 percent) of the ...

Sebastien Chastin receives funding from the Medical Research Council, Chief Scientist Office and the DataLab. Bart De Clercq receives funding from the Government of Flanders. Jelle Van Cauwenberg ...

Many adults spend much of their lives being sedentary — getting out of bed in the morning only to go to an office desk chair for eight hours, followed with TV time (or some scrolling) on the couch ...

A recently published study shows for the first time that even short periods of severe inactivity allow the buildup of proteins in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease. University of Missouri ...