World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour
FIONA C. BULL
1, 2, 3, 4
,
Salih S Al Ansari
5
,
Stuart Biddle
6, 7
,
Katja Borodulin
8, 9, 10
,
Matthew P. Buman
11, 12
,
Greet Cardon
13, 14
,
Catherine Carty
15, 16
,
Jean-Philippe Chaput
17, 18
,
S. Chastin
19, 20
,
Roger Chou
21, 22
,
Paddy C. Dempsey
23, 24, 25
,
Loretta DiPietro
26, 27
,
Ulf Ekelund
28, 29, 30
,
Joseph Firth
31, 32, 33
,
Christine M. Friedenreich
34, 35
,
Leandro Garcia
36, 37
,
Muthoni Gichu
38, 39
,
RUSSELL JAGO
40, 41
,
Peter T Katzmarzyk
42, 43
,
E. H. Lambert
44, 45
,
Michael Leitzmann
46, 47
,
karen milton
48, 49
,
Francisco B. Ortega
50, 51
,
Chathuranga Ranasinghe
52, 53
,
Emmanuel Stamatakis
54, 55
,
Anne Tiedemann
55, 56
,
RICHARD TROIANO
57, 58
,
Hidde P. van der Ploeg
55, 59, 60, 61
,
Vicky Wari
62
,
Juana F Willumsen
1, 2
1
Physical Activity Unit, Department of Health Promotion
2
World Health Organization
3
School of Human Sciences
5
Health Promotion Center
6
Centre for Health Research
8
Age Institute
9
Public Health Evaluation and Projection Unit
11
College of Health Solutions
13
Department of Movement and Sports Sciences
16
UNESCO Chair of Transforming the Lives of People with Disabilities, their Families and Communities, Through Physical Education, Sport, Recreation and Fitness
17
Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics
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19
School of Health and Life Sciences
21
Departments of Medicine, and Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology
23
MRC Epidemiology Unit, School of Clinical Medicine
26
Department of Exercise and Nutrition Science, Milken Institute School of Public Health
28
Department of Sport Medicine
29
Norwegian School of Sport Science
31
NICM Health Research Institute
34
Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research, CancerControl Alberta
35
Alberta Health Services
36
Centre for Public Health
38
Department of Non-Commuicable Diseases
39
Ministry of Health
40
Centre for Exercise, Nutrition & Health Science, School for Policy Studies
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42
Population and Public Health Sciences
43
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
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44
Research Centre for Health through Physical Activity, Lifestyle and Sport, Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences
46
Department ofEpidemiology and Preventive Medicine
48
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwich Medical School
50
PROFITH (PROmoting FITness and Health through physical activity) research group, Department of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Research Institute of Sport and Health
52
Sports and Exercise Medicine Unit and Department of Allied Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
56
Institute for Musculoskeletal Health
57
Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program
59
Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute
61
Prevention Research Collaboration, School of Public Health
62
National Department of Health
Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2020-11-25
scimago Q1
wos Q1
SJR: 4.724
CiteScore: 21.0
Impact factor: 16.2
ISSN: 03063674, 14730480
PubMed ID:
33239350
General Medicine
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Abstract
Objectives
To describe new WHO 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour.
Methods
The guidelines were developed in accordance with WHO protocols. An expert Guideline Development Group reviewed evidence to assess associations between physical activity and sedentary behaviour for an agreed set of health outcomes and population groups. The assessment used and systematically updated recent relevant systematic reviews; new primary reviews addressed additional health outcomes or subpopulations.
Results
The new guidelines address children, adolescents, adults, older adults and include new specific recommendations for pregnant and postpartum women and people living with chronic conditions or disability. All adults should undertake 150–300 min of moderate-intensity, or 75–150 min of vigorous-intensity physical activity, or some equivalent combination of moderate-intensity and vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity, per week. Among children and adolescents, an average of 60 min/day of moderate-to-vigorous intensity aerobic physical activity across the week provides health benefits. The guidelines recommend regular muscle-strengthening activity for all age groups. Additionally, reducing sedentary behaviours is recommended across all age groups and abilities, although evidence was insufficient to quantify a sedentary behaviour threshold.
Conclusion
These 2020 WHO guidelines update previous WHO recommendations released in 2010. They reaffirm messages that some physical activity is better than none, that more physical activity is better for optimal health outcomes and provide a new recommendation on reducing sedentary behaviours. These guidelines highlight the importance of regularly undertaking both aerobic and muscle strengthening activities and for the first time, there are specific recommendations for specific populations including for pregnant and postpartum women and people living with chronic conditions or disability. These guidelines should be used to inform national health policies aligned with the WHO Global Action Plan on Physical Activity 2018–2030 and to strengthen surveillance systems that track progress towards national and global targets.
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DO - 10.1136/bjsports-2020-102955
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TI - World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour
T2 - British Journal of Sports Medicine
AU - BULL, FIONA C.
AU - Al Ansari, Salih S
AU - Biddle, Stuart
AU - Borodulin, Katja
AU - Buman, Matthew P.
AU - Cardon, Greet
AU - Carty, Catherine
AU - Chaput, Jean-Philippe
AU - Chastin, S.
AU - Chou, Roger
AU - Dempsey, Paddy C.
AU - DiPietro, Loretta
AU - Ekelund, Ulf
AU - Firth, Joseph
AU - Friedenreich, Christine M.
AU - Garcia, Leandro
AU - Gichu, Muthoni
AU - JAGO, RUSSELL
AU - Katzmarzyk, Peter T
AU - Lambert, E. H.
AU - Leitzmann, Michael
AU - milton, karen
AU - Ortega, Francisco B.
AU - Ranasinghe, Chathuranga
AU - Stamatakis, Emmanuel
AU - Tiedemann, Anne
AU - TROIANO, RICHARD
AU - van der Ploeg, Hidde P.
AU - Wari, Vicky
AU - Willumsen, Juana F
PY - 2020
DA - 2020/11/25
PB - BMJ
SP - 1451-1462
IS - 24
VL - 54
PMID - 33239350
SN - 0306-3674
SN - 1473-0480
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author = {FIONA C. BULL and Salih S Al Ansari and Stuart Biddle and Katja Borodulin and Matthew P. Buman and Greet Cardon and Catherine Carty and Jean-Philippe Chaput and S. Chastin and Roger Chou and Paddy C. Dempsey and Loretta DiPietro and Ulf Ekelund and Joseph Firth and Christine M. Friedenreich and Leandro Garcia and Muthoni Gichu and RUSSELL JAGO and Peter T Katzmarzyk and E. H. Lambert and Michael Leitzmann and karen milton and Francisco B. Ortega and Chathuranga Ranasinghe and Emmanuel Stamatakis and Anne Tiedemann and RICHARD TROIANO and Hidde P. van der Ploeg and Vicky Wari and Juana F Willumsen and others},
title = {World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour},
journal = {British Journal of Sports Medicine},
year = {2020},
volume = {54},
publisher = {BMJ},
month = {nov},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-102955},
number = {24},
pages = {1451--1462},
doi = {10.1136/bjsports-2020-102955}
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BULL, FIONA C., et al. “World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour.” British Journal of Sports Medicine, vol. 54, no. 24, Nov. 2020, pp. 1451-1462. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-102955.