American Heart Association President, Mitchell S. V. Elkind, M.D., M.S., FAHA, FAAN, professor of neurology and epidemiology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and attending neurologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, New York offers perspective via Zoom on EPI Lifestyle 2021 presentations P149, MP24 and MP67. copyright American Heart Association "The implications of all of these studies, really, are that people should limit passive, sedentary activities, like TV watching, as much as possible, and of course, this has implications for behaviors, particularly right now during the pandemic when so many people have been locked down or at home. They're out engaging in exercises and other activities less frequently. Now, we've known that over the past several decades people have become more sedentary on average in the United States and globally, and this has adverse consequences that have been made worse during the pandemic when people have been limited in what they can do, but these are effects that are much broader, and the studies that show this had been going on for 20 years. So this is not something that's only limited to the pandemic, but the pandemic, perhaps, will magnify these kinds of effects of sedentary behavior."