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Megan Stacey Grace1, Francis Dillon, Elizabeth L M Barr

  • 11Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA; 2Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA; 3School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Bundoora, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA; 4Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, NT, AUSTRALIA; 5Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; 6Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; 7Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA; 8Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne VIC, AUSTRALIA; 9School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA; 10School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; and 11Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA.

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
|May 18, 2017
PubMed
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Excessive television viewing time is linked to a higher risk of death from inflammatory causes. This association holds true even for non-smokers, suggesting TV habits may promote chronic inflammation.

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