New research in JAMA found that pregnant women with sedentary behavior, low step counts, or low levels of light physician activity had higher risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes.
In this MedPage Today video, Bethany Barone Gibbs, PhD, of West Virginia University School of Public Health in Morgantown, discusses why prolonged sitting may carry greater risks during pregnancy.
The following is a transcript of her remarks:
As a society and our culture through technology and societal shifts, and especially since COVID, we have been engineering other physical activity out of our life. If you've ever seen the movie "Wall-E," where those people are sort of on that little scooter, we're almost there.
We are spending a lot more of the time sitting -- online shopping, video streaming, remote work. There's so many reasons that we do not get that all-day physical activity that people just a couple of decades ago got.
