A new health hazard for women has been revealed. According to new research published in BMJ Open, an online, open access journal, women who work in jobs that require they be seated all day long should try and spend more time standing. This has something to do with an ailment called Uterine Fibroids.
Sedentary behavior, say the researchers, is associated with a variety of adverse health outcomes, including obesity, estrogen metabolism and chronic inflammation, all of which are related to the pathogenesis of uterine fibroids (UFs).
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According to the Mayo Clinic, uterine fibroids are common growths of the uterus. They often appear during the years women can get pregnant and give birth – so the danger comes in pre-menopausal women.
Uterine fibroids, explains the Mayo Clinic, are not cancer, and they rarely turn into cancer. They are not linked with a higher risk of other types of cancer in the uterus either.
The exact cause of uterine fibroids is unknown. However, they are thought to be caused by a combination of hormonal and genetic factors. They can be diagnosed with a pelvic exam, ultrasound, or MRI. Treatment for uterine fibroids depends on a woman’s symptoms and the size and location of the fibroids.
Their study aimed to explore the relationship between leisure sedentary time (LST) and UFs.
They conducted a cross-sectional analysis of data from patients from the Yunnan region in the China Multi-Ethnic Cohort Study that included a total of 6,623 non-menopausal women aged 30–55 years.
Another study showed that both men and women are at greater risk of developing dementia if they sit all day long.
Scientists at the University of Southern California conducted a study they say showed the risk of dementia “significantly increases among adults who spend over 10 hours a day engaging in sedentary behaviors like sitting.”
They also said that the average American is sedentary for about 9.5 hours each day.
“Many of us are familiar with the common advice to break up long periods of sitting by getting up every 30 minutes or so to stand or walk around. We wanted to see if those types of patterns are associated with dementia risk. We found that once you take into account the total time spent sedentary, the length of individual sedentary periods didn’t really matter,” said study author David Raichlen, professor of biological sciences and anthropology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Those researchers used data from the U.K. Biobank, a large-scale biomedical database of participants across the United Kingdom, to investigate possible links between sedentary behavior and dementia risk.
As part of the UK Biobank sub-study, over 100,000 adults agreed to wear accelerometers, wrist-worn devices for measuring movement, 24 hours per day for one week.
The researchers focused on a sample of approximately 50,000 adults from this sub-study over the age of 60 who did not have a diagnosis of dementia at the start of the study.
