Can we walk away from cardiovascular disease risk or do we have to 'huff and puff'? A cross-sectional compositional accelerometer data analysis among adults and older adults in the Copenhagen City Heart Study

• Main Authors: Melker Staffan Johansson (Author), Karen Søgaard (Author), Eva Prescott (Author), Jacob Louis Marott (Author), Peter Schnohr (Author), Andreas Holtermann (Author), Mette Korshøj (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background It is unclear whether walking can decrease cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk or if high intensity physical activity (HIPA) is needed, and whether the association is modified by age. We investigated how sedentary behaviour, walking, and HIPA, were associated with systolic blood pr...