Association between child and adolescent television viewing and adult health: a longitudinal birth cohort study.

By R. Hancox, B. Milne, Richie Poulton. The Lancet, 2004

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TV Viewing and Physical Activity Are Independently Associated with Metabolic Risk in Children: The European Youth Heart Study (2006, background): “Firstly, weekday TV viewing is suggested to be a reasonable indicator of overall TV viewing in children [9].”
Adolescent Physical Activity and Health (2006, result): “In a prospective birth cohort study, case-control studies suggest that PA in adolescence Hancox et al.[32] found that child and adolescent decreases the risk of breast cancer, although data television viewing was associated with higher body from three cohort studies do not support this finding.”
Systematic review of sedentary behaviour and health indicators in school-aged children and youth (2011, background): “Longitudinal studies found that those watching more than 2 hours of television per day had higher serum cholesterol levels [88] and were more likely to have high blood pressure [215] than their peers who watched less TV.”
Tracking of sedentary behaviours of young people: a systematic review. (2010, background): “Hancox et al. (2004) and Landhuis et al. (2008) report on the same sample of 1,037 New Zealand children.”
Recommended community strategies and measurements to prevent obesity in the United States. (2009, background): “02) association between television viewing in childhood and body mass index levels in adulthood (92,93).”