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Background and objectives: The interrelationship between physical activity (PA) levels and sedentary behavior could promote health or increase the incidence of risk factors to developcardiometabolic diseases. The aim of this study was to assess the association between auto-reported physical activity levels, sedentary behavior and the incidence of cardiometabolic risk factors. Methods: To analyze the aforementioned associations, an observational and correlational design was used. Participants (n = 117, mean ± SD for age = 61±1.43 years) were recruited from the non-invasive cardiology division at HNC of Cordoba city during the period between 2014-2016. Physical activity was recorded by means of the Spanish version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and analyzed using a spreadsheet that allow to estimate three weekly levels of PA (low, moderate and high), theenergy expenditure of PA (EEPA) and the sedentary behavior. Incidence of cardiometabolic risk factors was assessed by exploring the patient?s medical history. The selected risk factors were: body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure and serum lipid profile. Comparisons between men and women were made using independent samples T tests. All analyses were carried out using the Stata v.11.Results: Average PA levels for the total sample was 240.00 ± 116.44 METs·min/week; representing an EEPA of 1388.31 ± 600.26 Kcal/week. Further analysis showed that 25.63% of women and 18.80% of men reported to be engaged in PA of moderate intensitywhile only 5% of women and 11% of men were engaged in vigorous PA. Sedentary behavior was reported to be 360 ± 37.82 min/day. Significant associations were observed between BMI and sex (p