Sedentary behaviour at work—an underappreciated occupational hazard?

The link between a physically inactive job and heart disease was first recognized in the early 1950s, when Jeremy Morris and colleagues published their seminal paper [1], which indicated that ‘Men in physically active jobs [conductors] have a lower incidence of coronary heart-disease in middle age men than have men in physically inactive jobs [drivers]’. They also noted that the disease was not as severe as in physically active workers—‘tending to present first in them as angina pectoris and other relatively benign forms, and to have a smaller early case-fatality and a lower early mortality-rate’.

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