Dr. Jean-Philippe Chaput (Junior Research Chair) has published a letter to the editor in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association titled, “Time Spent Sedentary and Active and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children.” The letter is a response to a recent article by Dr. Ulf Ekelund et al. titled, “Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity and Sedentary Time and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children and Adolescents.

Full citation details are below:

Jean-Philippe Chaput, Ian Janssen, John C. Spence. Time Spent Sedentary and Active and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children. JAMA. 2012;307(19):2024-2025.

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