Many people experience a brief wave of dizziness or dimmed vision when they stand up, and you may have felt it yourself after getting out of bed too quickly or rising suddenly after sitting for a long ...

Without question, inactivity is bad for us. Prolonged sitting is consistently linked to higher risks of cardiovascular disease and death. The obvious response to this frightful fate is to not sit—move ...

Being sedentary at work, such as sitting in front of a work computer, led to lower blood pressure than standing for long periods. The findings are from a new study that also found that prolonged ...

For years, we’ve been told that “sitting is the new smoking”—but new research shows that standing could take a toll on our health, too. A new study, published last month in Medicine & Science in ...

A Finnish study found that prolonged standing at work had a negative impact on the research participants’ 24-hour blood pressure. In contrast, spending more time sitting at work was associated with ...

New research found that flavanol-rich foods help protect your cardiovascular system from the damaging effects of prolonged sitting.

There's a simple way older women can protect their heart health, a new study argues. Just stand up. Women who started standing up from a seated position more often during their day experienced notable ...

The simple daily habit of standing up more often may impact heart health for postmenopausal women, according to a new study from University of California San Diego. Researchers reported that women ...

A new study published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise suggests that prolonged standing at work may negatively impact 24-hour blood pressure. The study included 156 participants in Finland ...

Reducing sedentary behavior with interventions such as increasing daily sit-to-stand transitions might help lower blood pressure in postmenopausal women with overweight or obesity. Researchers ...

When it comes to heart health, there’s one activity many of us are guilty of engaging too much in, and it could be putting you at risk of heart failure: Sitting. It might not come as a surprise that ...