Television viewing time and all-cause mortality: interactions with BMI, physical activity, smoking, and dietary factors

CTV Swain; JK Bassett; AM Hodge; DW Dunstan; N Owen; Y Yang; H Jayasekara; JR Hébert; N Shivappa; RJ MacInnis; RL Milne; DR English; BM Lynch

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Television viewing time and all-cause mortality: interactions with BMI, physical activity, smoking, and dietary factors

CTV Swain, JK Bassett, AM Hodge, DW Dunstan, N Owen, Y Yang, H Jayasekara, JR Hébert, N Shivappa, RJ MacInnis, RL Milne, DR English, BM Lynch

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity | Published : 2022

DOI: 10.1186/s12966-022-01273-5

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Abstract

Background: Higher levels of time spent sitting (sedentary behavior) contribute to adverse health outcomes, including earlier death. This effect may be modified by other lifestyle factors. We examined the association of television viewing (TV), a common leisure-time sedentary behavior, with all-cause mortality, and whether this is modified by body mass index (BMI), physical activity, smoking, alcohol intake, soft drink consumption, or diet-associated inflammation. Methods: Using data from participants in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study, flexible parametric survival models assessed the time-dependent association of self-reported TV time (three categories: 3 h/day) with all-cause mor..

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Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study (MCCS) cohort recruitment was funded by VicHealth and Cancer Council Victoria. The MCCS was further augmented by Australian National Health and Medical Research Council grants 209057, 396414 and 1074383 and by infrastructure provided by Cancer Council Victoria. HJ is supported by NHMRC grant GNT1163120. D.W.D. and N.O. are supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council Fellowships Scheme and the Victorian Operational Infrastructure Support (OIS) Program. The funding bodies had no role in the design of the study, data collection, analysis, or interpretation; or writing the manuscript.