SynthesisSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2022
Daily Step Count and All-Cause Mortality: A Dose-Response Meta-analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Physical inactivity in chronic airways disease: an important candidate in the treatable traits paradigm.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026Pooled it
- Associations Between Exercise Training, Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Mortality: An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2025Pooled it
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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
- Higher glucose fluctuation is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease: Insights from pooled results among patients with diabetes.Journal of diabetes · 2023Pooled it
- Association Between Patient Factors and the Effectiveness of Wearable Trackers at Increasing the Number of Steps per Day Among Adults With Cardiometabolic Conditions: Meta-analysis of Individual Patient Data From Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- Daily steps and all-cause mortality: a meta-analysis of 15 international cohorts.The Lancet. Public health · 2022Pooled it
- Daily Step Counts in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Effect of Gamification Plus Automated Coaching to Increase Physical Activity Among Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease: The GAMEPAD Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Trial
- Cost-Effectiveness of Gamification, Financial Incentives, or Both to Increase Physical Activity Among Patients With Elevated Risk for Cardiovascular Disease.Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes · 2025Trial
- A structured, home-based exercise programme in kidney transplant recipients (ECSERT): A randomised controlled feasibility study.PloS one · 2025Trial
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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
- Distribution of device-measured 24-h movement behaviors in older adults: cross-sectional findings from the HUNT4 study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The accuracy of Apple Watch measurements: a living systematic review and meta-analysis.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- Associations between leaderboard usage in physical activity apps and perceived stress among university students: the roles of social comparison and physical activity.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- App-Recorded Daily Step Counts, Sex Differences, and Risk of Cardiovascular Outcomes Among Middle-Aged Population.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- The impacts of physical activity on domain-specific short video usage behaviors among university students.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Blind spots in health perception: the underestimated role of social connection for health outcomes.BMC public health · 2025Article
- An mHealth Intervention With Financial Incentives to Promote Smoking Cessation and Physical Activity Among Black Adults: Protocol for a Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundUncertainty remains about the optimum step count per day for health promotion.
objectiveWe aimed to investigate the association between step count per day and all-cause mortality risk.
methodsPubMed, Scopus, and ISI Web of Science were searched to January 2021 to find prospective cohort studies of the association between device-based step count per day and all-cause mortality risk in the general population. Two reviewers extracted data in duplicate and rated the certainty of evidence using the GRADE approach. Study-specific hazard ratios (HRs) were pooled using a random-effects model.
resultsSeven prospective cohort studies with 175,370 person-years and 2310 cases of all-cause mortality were included. The HR for each 1000 steps per day was 0.88 (95% CI 0.83-0.93; I
conclusionsEven a modest increase in steps per day may be associated with a lower risk of death. These results can be used to develop simple, efficient and easy-to-understand public health messages.
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