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Diabetes Prevention Support Center of the University of Pittsburgh researchers receive NIH grant to improve health of sedentary, overweight people.

University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health researchers are flipping conventional thought on its head regarding how to improve the health of sedentary people at risk for diabetes and heart disease in a new study designed to combat a condition popularly called “sitting disease.”

Armed with a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), physical activity epidemiologist Andrea Kriska, Ph.D., and her team will investigate whether they can improve the health of sedentary, overweight people with a program initially focusing on decreasing the amount of time they spend sitting – rather than starting with an emphasis on increasing the amount of time they spend exercising. This current study will test the concept that sitting less may be as important as participating in planned bouts of moderate intensity physical activity in sedentary people.

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