However, unlike smoking, sedentary lifestyles lead to more than 40 medically recognised chronic diseases, such as coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, mental illness, dementia, some cancers.

BBC: Laziness will send us to an early grave

Hospital workers also had rates of emergency department utilization and hospital admission for a number of chronic medical ailments including congestive heart failure, hypertension, depression, coronary artery disease, diabetes, asthma as well as obesity.

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Asthma, congestive heart failure, depression, coronary artery disease and diabetes--they're the five major chronic conditions that drive the vast majority of health care costs.

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