Standing desks may not improve the health risks associated with sitting at your desk all day, a new study has found.

You may have heard that sitting is the new smoking—and while the immediate physical impacts aren’t exactly the same, their effect on your long-term health, including your heart, show remarkable similarities.

In today’s health headlines, signs that sexually transmitted infections are declining. Could standing desks not be a great alternative to sitting? And if you’ve been under the weather, how to know when your symptoms warrant a trip to the emergency room?

A large new study found that standing for more than two hours a day doesn’t protect against the cardiovascular risks of too much sitting.

Standing desks have been trendy for over a decade, due in large part to their claims of increased health for those of us who use a computer for hours every day. A new study with years of data and tens of thousands of participants throws cold water on those claims,

Standing desks became popular thanks to phrases like “sitting is the new smoking,” which highlighted the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle.