David W Dunstan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3574159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David W Dunstan |
| GIVEN NAMES | David W |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunstan |
| SIGNATURE | DUNSTAN D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2629-9568 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The association between device-measured sitting time and cardiometabolic health risk factors in children
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry: ACTRN12609000715279
Increased Prolonged Sitting in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Imposed social distancing measures to contain the COVID-19 outbreak were associated with decreased physical activity and increased prolonged sedentary behavior, but did not change clinical symptoms sitting among patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Active Aging and Public Health
By 2050, 20% of the world's population will be over the age of 65 years, with projections that 80% of older adults will be living in low- to middle-income countries. Physical inactivity and sedentary time are particularly high in older adults, presenting unique public health challenges. In this article, we first review evidence that points to multiple beneficial outcomes of active aging, including better physical function, cognitive function, men…
The Cost-Effectiveness of the SMART Work & Life Intervention for Reducing Sitting Time
Sedentary behaviours continue to increase and are associated with heightened risks of morbidity and mortality. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of SMART Work & Life (SWAL), an intervention designed to reduce sitting time inside and outside of work, both with (SWAL-desk) and without (SWAL-only) a height-adjustable workstation compared to usual practice (control) for UK office workers. Health outcomes were assessed in quality-adjusted life-years …
Television-viewing time and bodily pain in Australian adults with and without type 2 diabetes
Bodily pain severity increased with age in middle-aged and older Australian adults over a 12-year period, and increments in TV time predicted increased bodily pain severity at any given period, which was more pronounced in those with T2D. While increasing physical activity is a mainstay of the prevention and management of chronic health problems, these new findings highlight the potential of reducing sedentary behaviours in this context
Sitting less and moving more for improved metabolic and brain health in type 2 diabetes
ANZCTRN12618001159246
Neighbourhood walkability and dietary attributes
Objective: Higher neighbourhood walkability would be expected to contribute to better health, but the relevant evidence is inconsistent. This may be because residents’ dietary attributes, which vary with socio-economic status (SES) and influence their health, can be related to walkability. We examined associations of walkability with dietary attributes and potential effect modification by area-level SES. Design: The exposure variable of this cros…
Rise and Recharge
This feasibility study explored the contextual factors influencing office workers' adherence to an e-health intervention targeting total and prolonged sedentary time over 12 weeks. A three-arm quasi-randomized intervention included prompts at 30 or 60 min intervals delivered via a smartphone application, and a no-prompt comparison arm. Fifty-six office workers completed baseline (64% female) and 44 completed the 12 week follow-up (80% retention).…
Rise and Recharge
This feasibility study evaluated the effects of an individual-level intervention to target office workers total and prolonged sedentary behaviour during working hours, using an e-health smartphone application. A three-arm (Prompt-30 or 60 min Intervention arm and a No-Prompt Comparison arm), quasi-randomised intervention was conducted over 12 weeks. Behavioural outcomes (worktime sitting, standing, stepping, prolonged sitting, and physical activi…
A Cost and Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Stand More at Work (Smart Work) Intervention
This study conducted a cost and cost-benefit analysis of the Stand More AT (SMArT) Work workplace intervention, designed to reduce sitting time. The study was a cluster two-armed randomised controlled trial involving 37 office clusters (146 desk-based workers) in a National Health Service Trust. The intervention group received a height-adjustable workstation with supporting behaviour change strategies. The control group continued with usual pract…
Agreement between the International Physical Activity Questionnaire and Accelerometry in Adults with Orthopaedic Injury
Orthopaedic injury can lead to decreased physical activity. Valid measures for assessing physical activity are therefore needed in this population. The aim of this study was to determine the agreement and concordance between the International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Short Form (IPAQ) and device-measured physical activity and sitting time in orthopaedic injury patients. Adults with isolated upper or lower limb fracture ( n = 46; mean age o…
Controversies in the Science of Sedentary Behaviour and Health
The development in research concerning sedentary behaviour has been rapid over the past two decades. This has led to the development of evidence and views that have become more advanced, diverse and, possibly, contentious. These include the effects of standing, the breaking up of prolonged sitting and the role of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in the association between sedentary behaviour and health outcomes. The present aim is to…
Population density is beneficially associated with 12-year diabetes risk marker change among residents of lower socio-economic neighborhoods
Longitudinal Changes in Sitting Patterns, Physical Activity, and Health Outcomes in Adolescents
This study examined two-year changes in patterns of activity and associations with body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) among adolescents. Inclinometers (activPAL) assessed sitting, sitting bouts, standing, stepping, and breaks from sitting. ActiGraph-accelerometers assessed sedentary time (SED), light-intensity physical activity (LIPA, stratified as low- and high-LIPA), and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). Anthropomet…
A three arm cluster randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the SMART Work & Life intervention for reducing daily sitting time in office workers
ISRCTN11618007 . Registered on 21 January 2018
Stand More at Work (Smart Work)
ISRCTN10967042 . Registered on 2 February 2015
Cross-sectional and prospective mediating effects of dietary intake on the relationship between sedentary behaviour and body mass index in adolescents
TV viewing, total sedentary time and bouts of sedentary time were not associated cross-sectionally or prospectively with adolescents' zBMI, and three elements of dietary intake (e.g. intake of discretionary foods, SSB and takeaway foods) did not mediate this relationship. The role of dietary intake and sedentary behaviour in relation to adolescent health requires further clarification
Physical Activity/Exercise and Diabetes
The adoption and maintenance of physical activity are critical foci for blood glucose management and overall health in individuals with diabetes and prediabetes. Recommendations and precautions vary depending on individual characteristics and health status. In this Position Statement, we provide a clinically oriented review and evidence-based recommendations regarding physical activity and exercise in people with type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes,…
Impact of an 8-Month Trial Using Height-Adjustable Desks on Children’s Classroom Sitting Patterns and Markers of Cardio-Metabolic and Musculoskeletal Health
During school hours, children can sit for prolonged and unbroken periods of time. This study investigated the impact of an 8-month classroom-based intervention focusing on reducing and breaking-up sitting time on children's cardio-metabolic risk factors (i.e., body mass index, waist circumference, blood pressure) and perceptions of musculoskeletal discomfort. Two Year-6 classes (24 students per class) in one primary school were assigned to either…
Feasibility and acceptability of reducing workplace sitting time
While a number of low-cost approaches to reduce workplace sitting are perceived to be feasible and acceptable in the office workplace, factors such as work demands and the organisational social context may still act as barriers to greater uptake. Building a supportive organisational culture and raising awareness of the adverse health effects of prolonged sitting may be important for improving individual-level and organisational-level motivation f…
Too much sitting and all-cause mortality
There is reasonable evidence for a likely causal relationship between sedentary behaviour and all-cause mortality based on the epidemiological criteria of strength of association, consistency of effect, and temporality
Excessive sitting at work and at home
Higher household income (both genders) and professional/managerial occupations (men only) were correlates of high occupational sitting time, relative to low occupational sitting time, while health-related factors (lower LTPA, higher BMI - men, and higher energy consumption - women) were associated with high levels of both occupational sitting and TV viewing time, relative to low occupational sitting and low TV viewing time. These findings suggest…
Providing NHS staff with height-adjustable workstations and behaviour change strategies to reduce workplace sitting time
ISRCTN10967042 . Registered 2 February 2015
Workplace Sitting Breaks Questionnaire (SITBRQ)
SITBRQ may be used for assessment of the frequency of sitting breaks within desk-based work settings with validity and reliability similar to other self-reports in the field of sedentary behaviour research. However, until adequately improved and re-evaluated, it should not be used to collect data about the duration of breaks in sitting time
First Vintage
Socioeconomic position, gender, health behaviours and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease and diabetes
New Worlds and Old Prejudices
Until recently, Australia's cricketing past has been coloured by an anglocentric bias. Australian cricket writers, players and administrators mainly have deemed Australian series with subcontinental countries of much lesser importance than Ashes contests. In surveying Australia's cricketing relations with the subcontinent from the 1880s until Australia's first fully fledged official tour of the region in 1959–1960, this paper seeks to redress thi…
Governing the Metropolis. Politics, Technology and Social Change in a Victorian City. Melbourne 1850-1891
Governing the Metropolis-Politics, Technology and Social Change in a Victorian City
The Outcasts of Melbourne. Essays in Social History
ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction - Graeme Davison1 'This Moral Pandemonium': images of low life - Graeme Davison and David Dunstan2 Chinatown - Chris McConville3 From 'criminal class' to 'underworld' - Chris McConville4 The poor people of Melbourne - Shurlee Swain5 The doorstep evangelist: William Hall in darkest Prahran - Roslyn Otzen6 The salvation war - Blair Ussher7 Dirt and disease - David Dunstan8 'Worst Smelbourne': Melbourne's nox…
Books
Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800–2000. By Anna Haebich. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000. Pp. 726. $35.00 paper. My Dark Brother. The Story of the Wins, a Russian‐Aboriginal Family. By Elena Govor. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 385. $34.95 cloth. Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership. By Peter Read. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. vii + 248. $29.95 …
JAS review of books
Penelope Hetherington, Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth‐Century Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press, 2002, pp 256, pb $34.95, ISBN 1876268735. B W Higman, Domestic Service in Australia, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 304, hb $49.95, ISBN 0522850111. Robert Jordan, The Convict Theatres of Early Australia 1788–1840, Currency Press, 2002, pp 366, hb $49.95, ISBN 0958121303. Mimi…
With Sam Benwell and the house of lords journeying to wine in Victoria
W. S. Sam Benwell's 'Journey to Wine in Victoria' is a travelogue account of the wine industry in Victoria covering aspects of its history and setting in the Victorian countryside. It was a guide with understated literary pretensions, and it dealt with the styles of wine produced by the various wineries and the burning consumer issues of the day, like whether there could be any difference between a claret and a burgundy when both wines are made f…
Breaks in Sedentary Time
OBJECTIVE—Total sedentary (absence of whole-body movement) time is associated with obesity, abnormal glucose metabolism, and the metabolic syndrome. In addition to the effects of total sedentary time, the manner in which it is accumulated may also be important. We examined the association of breaks in objectively measured sedentary time with biological markers of metabolic risk. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—Participants (n = 168, mean age 53.4 yea…
Too little exercise and too much sitting
Objectively Measured Sedentary Time, Physical Activity, and Metabolic Risk
OBJECTIVE—We examined the associations of objectively measured sedentary time and physical activity with continuous indexes of metabolic risk in Australian adults without known diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—An accelerometer was used to derive the percentage of monitoring time spent sedentary and in light-intensity and moderate-to-vigorous–intensity activity, as well as mean activity intensity, in 169 Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifes…
Television Viewing Time and Mortality
Background— Television viewing time, the predominant leisure-time sedentary behavior, is associated with biomarkers of cardiometabolic risk, but its relationship with mortality has not been studied. We examined the associations of prolonged television viewing time with all-cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, and non-CVD/noncancer mortality in Australian adults. Methods and Results— Television viewing time in relation to subsequent all-ca…
Too Much Sitting
In Brief Even when adults meet physical activity guidelines, sitting for prolonged periods can compromise metabolic health. Television (TV) time and objective measurement studies show deleterious associations, and breaking up sedentary time is beneficial. Sitting time, TV time, and time sitting in automobiles increase premature mortality risk. Further evidence from prospective studies, intervention trials, and population-based behavioral studies …
Sedentary Behavior
Living Well with Diabetes
ACTRN12608000203358
Socioeconomic position, gender, health behaviours and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease and diabetes
Sedentary time and cardio-metabolic biomarkers in US adults
AIMS: Prolonged sedentary time is ubiquitous in developed economies and is associated with an adverse cardio-metabolic risk profile and premature mortality. This study examined the associations of objectively assessed sedentary time and breaks (interruptions) in sedentary time with continuous cardio-metabolic and inflammatory risk biomarkers, and whether these associations varied by sex, age, and/or race/ethnicity. METHODS AND RESULTS: Cross-sect…
Sedentary Behaviors and Subsequent Health Outcomes in Adults
A cluster-randomized controlled trial to reduce sedentary behavior and promote physical activity and health of 8-9 year olds
ACTRN12609000715279; Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN83725066
Breaking Up Prolonged Sitting Reduces Postprandial Glucose and Insulin Responses
OBJECTIVE: Observational studies show breaking up prolonged sitting has beneficial associations with cardiometabolic risk markers, but intervention studies are required to investigate causality. We examined the acute effects on postprandial glucose and insulin levels of uninterrupted sitting compared with sitting interrupted by brief bouts of light- or moderate-intensity walking. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Overweight/obese adults (n = 19), aged…
Reducing office workers’ sitting time
ACTRN1211000742976
New Worlds and Old Prejudices
Until recently, Australia's cricketing past has been coloured by an anglocentric bias. Australian cricket writers, players and administrators mainly have deemed Australian series with subcontinental countries of much lesser importance than Ashes contests. In surveying Australia's cricketing relations with the subcontinent from the 1880s until Australia's first fully fledged official tour of the region in 1959–1960, this paper seeks to redress thi…
Workplace Sitting Breaks Questionnaire (SITBRQ)
SITBRQ may be used for assessment of the frequency of sitting breaks within desk-based work settings with validity and reliability similar to other self-reports in the field of sedentary behaviour research. However, until adequately improved and re-evaluated, it should not be used to collect data about the duration of breaks in sitting time
First Vintage
Australian Local Government and Community Development
Local government is admired for being ‘close to the people’. Respect from communities extends naturally to those institutions that claim to represent or serve them, as many local governments do. Th
Excessive sitting at work and at home
Higher household income (both genders) and professional/managerial occupations (men only) were correlates of high occupational sitting time, relative to low occupational sitting time, while health-related factors (lower LTPA, higher BMI - men, and higher energy consumption - women) were associated with high levels of both occupational sitting and TV viewing time, relative to low occupational sitting and low TV viewing time. These findings suggest…
Providing NHS staff with height-adjustable workstations and behaviour change strategies to reduce workplace sitting time
ISRCTN10967042 . Registered 2 February 2015
Medicine (37 works) · Physical Activity and Health (29 works) · Physical therapy (28 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (22 works) · Sitting (21 works) · Physical activity (16 works) · Environmental health (14 works) · Internal Medicine (11 works) · Obesity (11 works) · Sedentary behavior (11 works)