How activity or inactivity changes your body
Part of Hormones & metabolism clinical trials.
This study looks at how changing your physical activity level (either becoming more or less active) affects your whole body over 6 months. It is for people aged 50–65 who are overweight and either quite sedentary or fairly active, and who are willing to change their routine.
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Who can take part
- You are between 50 and 65 years old
- You are overweight (BMI 25–35) and have a waist size of at least 94 cm (men) or 80 cm (women)
- You sit either less than 6 hours a day (and walk more than 8,000 steps) OR you sit 8+ hours a day (and walk 5,000 steps or less)
- You are willing to change your activity level for 6 months
- You do not have any major heart, lung, metabolic, muscle, or kidney disease, and you are not on regular medications that could interfere with the study
- If you are a woman, you are past menopause or on stable hormone replacement therapy
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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