Are standing desks good for you? The reply is getting clearer. – Cyber Tech

The researchers targeted on two classes of well being outcomes: cardiovascular, protecting coronary coronary heart illness, coronary heart failure, and stroke; and orthostatic circulatory illness occasions, together with orthostatic hypotension (blood stress drops upon standing or sitting), varicose veins, continual venous insufficiency (veins in your legs do not transfer blood again as much as your coronary heart), and venous ulcers. The reasoning for this second class is that extended sitting and standing could pose dangers for growing circulatory illnesses.

The researchers discovered that when individuals’ complete stationary time (sitting and standing) went over 12 hours per day, danger of orthostatic circulatory illness elevated 22 p.c per extra hour, whereas danger of heart problems went up 13 p.c per hour.

For simply sitting, dangers elevated each hour after 10 hours: for orthostatic circulatory illness, danger went up 26 p.c each hour after 10 hours, and heart problems danger went up 15 p.c. For standing, danger of orthostatic circulatory illness went up after simply two hours, growing 11 p.c each half-hour after two hours of standing. However standing had no affect on heart problems at any time level.

“Opposite to sitting time, extra time spent standing was not related to a better CVD [cardiovascular disease] danger. Total, there was no affiliation for larger or decrease CVD danger all through the vary of standing period,” the authors report.

However, holding sitting time beneath 10 hours and standing time beneath two hours was linked to a weak protecting impact towards orthostatic circulatory illness: A day of 9 hours of sitting and 1.5 of standing (for a complete of 11.5 hours of stationary time) lowered danger of orthostatic circulatory illness by a number of share factors, the examine discovered.

In different phrases, so long as you possibly can maintain your complete stationary time beneath 12 hours, you should utilize a bit standing time enable you to maintain your sitting time beneath 10 hours and keep away from growing each cardiovascular and orthostatic dangers, in keeping with the information.

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It is a very detailed components to cut back the well being dangers of lengthy days on the workplace, however is it set in stone? Most likely not. For one factor, it is only one examine that must be replicated in a special inhabitants. Additionally, the examine did not have a look at any specifics of occupational versus leisure standing and sitting occasions, not to mention using standing desks particularly. The examine additionally primarily based estimates of individuals’s sitting, standing, and complete stationary time on as little as simply 4 days of exercise monitoring, which can or could not have been constant over the practically seven-year common follow-up interval.