Sitting Less and Moving More: Implications for Hypertension
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Through a hypertension lens, this review focuses on the serious health implications and potential counter-measures for the high volumes of uninterrupted sitting that characterises modern lifestyles. Reducing and breaking up sitting may represent a viable clinical and population health strategy to reduce blood pressure and related cardiovascular risk factors, which in contrast to moderate-vigorous physical activity, may have significant potential for widespread uptake. This review synthesises findings on the specific relationships of sedentary behaviour with BP - which primarily are from observational and acute experimental studies - including a discussion on the relevant cardiovascular mechanisms. It also considers what will need to be better understood as a basis for evidence-based recommendations on sedentary time in the context of BP control, and identify evidence gaps for future research.
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A recent meta-analysis, while accounting for total sedentary time and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity time, revealed that even a single break per hour can modestly improve BMI, waist circumference, inflammation, and blood pressure.
“A recent meta-analysis, while accounting for total sedentary time and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity time, revealed that even a single break per hour can modestly improve BMI, waist circumference, inflammation, and blood pressure [12,13].”
From Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of a “Sit Less” Program Leveraging Fitbit Tracking and Tailored Text Messages in Cardiometabolic Disease: Findings From 2 Parallel Randomized Controlled Trials in Coronary Artery Disease and Type 2 Diabetes (2026) · cites this paper as [13]
The cardiometabolic-risk section reports associations between sitting patterns, BMI and waist circumference, and the Experimental evidence section reports blood-pressure reductions when prolonged sitting is interrupted. But this paper does not report that a meta-analysis found improvements in all four outcomes after a single break per hour; in particular, it does not establish an improvement in inflammation or that break frequency. (LLM, conf=0.87)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredFrequent standing or walking can reduce total sedentary time and disrupt prolonged sitting, changing physiological pathways and improving cardiometabolic outcomes.
“Frequent standing or walking can reduce total sedentary time and disrupt prolonged sitting, changing physiological pathways and improving cardiometabolic outcomes [12-14].”
In adults with type 2 diabetes, interrupting sedentary time with short, regular, frequent episodes of light-intensity physical activity attenuates postprandial glucose, insulin, C-peptide and triglycerides, and reduces waist circumference, BMI and blood pressure.
“In adults with T2D, the interruption of sedentary time with short, regular and frequent episodes of light-intensity physical activity such as walking or simple resistance activities attenuates the level of postprandial glucose, insulin, C-peptide and triglycerides [45], and reduces waist circumference, body mass index (BMI) [46] and blood pressure [47].”
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- Authors
- Dempsey, P. C., Larsen, R. N., Dunstan, D. W., Owen, N., & Kingwell, B. A.
- Affiliations
- Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Dempsey, Paddy C.
- Venue
- Hypertension
- Published
- 2018-11
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1037-1046
- ISSN
- 0194-911X (ISSN-L)
- 1524-4563
- PMC
- PMC7343526
- OpenAlex
- W2896214644
- Cited by
- 170
- References
- 85
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 1.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Hypertension (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Apollo (University of Cambridge) (submittedVersion)
- Research Bank (Australian Catholic University) (submittedVersion)
- Own your potential (DEAKIN) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion)
- Swinburne figshare (Swinburne University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Apollo
- Funders
- Cambridge University Hospitals (146281)
- Medical Research Council (MC_UU_12015/3)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Keywords
- sedentary behavior, sitting time, blood pressure, cardiovascular risk, physical activity, blood pressure control, cardiovascular mechanisms, evidence gaps
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Hypertension, Risk Factors, Exercise, Disease Management, Sedentary Behavior
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