Systematic review of the relationships between sedentary behaviour and health indicators in the early years (0–4 years)

Table 6 The relationship between sedentary behaviour and cardiometabolic health

No. of participants (No. of studies)	Design	Quality assessment				Absolute effect	Quality
No. of participants (No. of studies)	Design	Risk of bias	Inconsistency	Indirectness	Imprecision	Absolute effect	Quality
The mean age was 3.1 years. Data were collected cross-sectionally. Cardiometabolic health was assessed using an objective measure of blood pressure.
276 (1)	Cross-sectional^a	Serious risk of bias^b	No serious inconsistency	No serious indirectness	No serious imprecision	Screen-based sedentary behaviours: Watching TV for ≥ 2 h/day was not associated with high blood pressure (compared to <2 h/day, Prevalence Ratio = 0.9, 95% CI: 0.5, 1.4, p = 0.568) [126].	Very low^c

^aIncludes 1 cross-sectional study [126]
^bSerious risk of bias. Unknown reliability and validity of the exposure measure [126]
^cThe quality of evidence from the cross-sectional study was downgraded from “low” to “very low” because of a serious risk of bias that diminished the level of confidence in the observed effects

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