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Title: Examining Sedentary Work and Weight Gain Prospectively: Evidence from NLSY79
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Lin, Tin-Chi Courtney, T.K. Lombardi, David A. Verma, S.K. |
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Examining Sedentary Work and Weight Gain Prospectively: Evidence from NLSY79 Presented: New Orleans LA, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo, November 2014 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Public Health Association Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Gender Differences; Occupational Information Network (O*NET); Occupations; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. METHOD: We used BMI as our outcome. The primary explanatory variable was "time spent on sitting", extracted from O*NET (Occupational Information Network) and linked to the main NLSY79 data by occupation. Sitting time consists of five categories, ranging from never (1) to continuously or almost continuously (5). Workplace sitting time at six months prior to interview was used to predict the outcome in each wave. Age, education, weekly frequencies of leisure-time exercise were included as controls in our fixed-effects models. RESULTS: The overall results suggested that workplace sitting time was significantly associated with higher BMI, however, the result differed substantially by gender. For men, long sitting time was significantly associated with higher BMI (p < 0.05). For women, the association was not significant. |
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Lin, Tin-Chi, T.K. Courtney, David A. Lombardi and S.K. Verma. "Examining Sedentary Work and Weight Gain Prospectively: Evidence from NLSY79." Presented: New Orleans LA, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo, November 2014. |