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ArticleScientific reports2020

Can Daily Walking Alone Reduce Pneumonia-Related Mortality among Older People?

Takaaki Ikeda, Sumito Inoue, Tsuneo Konta, Masayasu Murakami, Shouichi Fujimoto, Kunitoshi Iseki, Toshiki Moriyama, Kunihiro Yamagata, Kazuhiko Tsuruya, Ichiei Narita and 5 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Takaaki IkedaDepartment of Health Policy Science, Graduate School of Medical Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan. t.ikeda0110@gmail.com.
Sumito InoueDepartment of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Nephrology, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan.
Tsuneo KontaDepartment of Public Health and Hygiene, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan.
Masayasu MurakamiDepartment of Health Policy Science, Graduate School of Medical Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan.
Shouichi FujimotoSteering Committee of Research on Design of the Comprehensive Health Care System for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Based on the Individual Risk Assessment by Specific Health Checkup, Fukushima, Japan.
Kunitoshi IsekiSteering Committee of Research on Design of the Comprehensive Health Care System for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Based on the Individual Risk Assessment by Specific Health Checkup, Fukushima, Japan.
Toshiki MoriyamaSteering Committee of Research on Design of the Comprehensive Health Care System for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Based on the Individual Risk Assessment by Specific Health Checkup, Fukushima, Japan.
Kunihiro YamagataSteering Committee of Research on Design of the Comprehensive Health Care System for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Based on the Individual Risk Assessment by Specific Health Checkup, Fukushima, Japan.
Kazuhiko TsuruyaSteering Committee of Research on Design of the Comprehensive Health Care System for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Based on the Individual Risk Assessment by Specific Health Checkup, Fukushima, Japan.
Ichiei NaritaSteering Committee of Research on Design of the Comprehensive Health Care System for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Based on the Individual Risk Assessment by Specific Health Checkup, Fukushima, Japan.
Masahide KondoSteering Committee of Research on Design of the Comprehensive Health Care System for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Based on the Individual Risk Assessment by Specific Health Checkup, Fukushima, Japan.
Yugo ShibagakiSteering Committee of Research on Design of the Comprehensive Health Care System for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Based on the Individual Risk Assessment by Specific Health Checkup, Fukushima, Japan.
Masato KasaharaSteering Committee of Research on Design of the Comprehensive Health Care System for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Based on the Individual Risk Assessment by Specific Health Checkup, Fukushima, Japan.
Koichi AsahiSteering Committee of Research on Design of the Comprehensive Health Care System for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Based on the Individual Risk Assessment by Specific Health Checkup, Fukushima, Japan.
Tsuyoshi WatanabeSteering Committee of Research on Design of the Comprehensive Health Care System for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Based on the Individual Risk Assessment by Specific Health Checkup, Fukushima, Japan.
Yamagata University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pneumonia-related mortality is expected to increase in aging societies. This prospective cohort study examined whether daily walking (1 hour/day) could reduce pneumonia-related mortality among older people who lacked other exercise habits. We analysed data from Japanese Specific Health Checkup across 82 municipalities in 7 prefectures among participants aged ≥65 years who participated in daily walking but did not regularly engage in other forms of exercise (n = 132,448). Information on walking habits and health-related indicators was assessed at a baseline survey conducted between 2008 and 2014. Pneumonia-related and all-cause mortality were followed for a median of 3.4 years. We performed a competing risk model with propensity score matching to evaluate the association between daily walking habits and pneumonia-related mortality. Our propensity-matched analysis revealed a significant association between daily walking and pneumonia-related mortality among older people who lacked other exercise habits, such that the sub-hazard ratio and 95% confidence intervals were 0.58 (0.39, 0.86). This study extends the findings of previous research on the effects of exercise on pneumonia by demonstrating that daily walking alone is sufficient to reduce pneumonia-related mortality among older people who do not regularly engage in other exercise habits.

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AgingWalkingAdultAgedCause of DeathExercise TherapyFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPneumoniaPrognosisProspective StudiesSurveys and QuestionnairesSurvival Rate

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PMID32444618
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