ArticleBMC public health2018
Daily step count and all-cause mortality in a sample of Japanese elderly people: a cohort study.
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- How to Keep the Balance between Red and Processed Meat Intake and Physical Activity Regarding Mortality: A Dose-Response Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
- Daily steps and all-cause mortality: a meta-analysis of 15 international cohorts.The Lancet. Public health · 2022Pooled it
- Daily Step Count and All-Cause Mortality: A Dose-Response Meta-analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Pooled it
- The relationships between step count and all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events: A dose-response meta-analysis.Journal of sport and health science · 2021Pooled it
- Systematic review of the prospective association of daily step counts with risk of mortality, cardiovascular disease, and dysglycemia.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Pooled it
- Daily Step Counts for Measuring Physical Activity Exposure and Its Relation to Health.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2019Pooled it
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- Limitations of Daily Step Count for Assessing Health in Older Adults: The Need to Consider Walking Intensity.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Normative percentile curves of accelerometer-measured daily step counts in Korean older adults.Physical activity and nutrition · 2025Article
- Associations of daily step counts with depressive symptoms during pregnancy: Ruian birth cohort study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Associations of objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time with all-cause mortality in Japanese older adults: a 10-year prospective study.British journal of sports medicine · 2025Article
- Associations of daily step count with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality in hypertensive US adults: a cohort study from NHANES 2005-2006.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Ten Thousand Steps Per Day: To Follow Or Not? Is There Any Role of Technology?Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences · 2024Article
- Japan Atherosclerosis Society (JAS) Guidelines for Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases 2022.Journal of atherosclerosis and thrombosis · 2024Article
- Walking for transport and all-cause mortality: a prospective cohort study of Australian community-dwelling older adults.BMJ public health · 2024Article
- Daily Step Count and its Association with Arterial Stiffness Parameters in Older Adults.Annals of geriatric medicine and research · 2024Article
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- Ambulatory Activity and Risk of Premature Mortality Among Young and Middle-aged American Indian Individuals.JAMA network open · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThis study aimed to examine the relationship between pedometer-assessed daily step count and all-cause mortality in a sample of elderly Japanese people.
methodsParticipants included 419 (228 males and 191 females) physically independent, community-dwelling 71-year-old Japanese people. The number of steps per day was measured by a waist-mounted pedometer for seven consecutive days at baseline. Participants were divided into quartiles based on their average number of steps/day (first quartile, < 4503 steps/day; second quartile, 4503-6110 steps/day; third quartile, 6111-7971 steps/day; fourth quartile, > 7972 steps/day) and were followed up over a mean period of 9.8 years (1999-2010) for mortality.
resultsSeventy-six participants (18.1%) died during the follow-up period. The hazard ratios (adjusted for sex, body mass index, cigarette smoking, alcohol intake, and medication use) for mortality across the quartiles of daily step count (lowest to highest) were 1.00 (reference), 0.81 (95%CI, 0.43-1.54), 1.26 (95%CI, 0.70-2.26), and 0.46 (95%CI, 0.22-0.96) (P for trend = 0.149). Participants in the highest quartile had a significantly lower risk of death compared with participants in the lowest quartile.
conclusionThis study suggested that a high daily step count is associated with a lower risk of all-cause mortality in physically independent Japanese elderly people.
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