Leonie Heron and colleagues say that as well as sedentary behavior causing thousands of deaths per year, sitting or lying for six hours or more per day is at the root of the £424m per year spent on cardiovascular disease, the £281m spent on type 2 diabetes and the £30m spent on colon cancer alone.
A growing body of evidence suggests that prolonged sedentary behavior increases the risk of chronic health problems and death. Estimating the associated financial burden to the NHS in the UK is an important step towards developing public health policy.
