This study is important because it included a large number of participants and was among a select few studies to evaluate total time spent sitting.

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However, to achieve this goal the NCS planners made a decision to randomly select neighborhoods within each county and to have study personnel go door-to-door to recruit women who were pregnant or planning to become pregnant, much as census workers do to reach under-represented groups.

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