World’s largest study shows the more you walk, the lower your risk of death, even if you walk fewer than 5,000 steps
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The number of steps you should walk every day to start seeing benefits to your health is lower than previously thought, according to the largest analysis to investigate this. The study, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, found that walking at least 3967 steps a day started to reduce the risk of dying from any cause, and 2337 steps a day reduced the risk of dying from diseases of the heart and blood vessels (cardiovascular disease).

The number of steps you should walk every day to start seeing benefits to your health is lower than previously thought, according to the largest analysis to investigate this. The study, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, found that walking at least 3967 steps a day started to reduce the risk of dying from any cause, and 2337 steps a day reduced the risk of dying from diseases of the heart and blood vessels (cardiovascular disease).

  • neptune@dmv.socialEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    Assuming it controls for other factors? If you have cancer you probably don’t walk a whole lot.

    • aes @beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I read the headline and my immediate thought was “is this controlled for socioeconomic class?”

      I guess I’m reading the paper