ArticleScandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports2022
Dose-response association between step count and cardiovascular disease risk markers in middle-aged adults.
Article in Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Association of sedentary behavior and physical activity with occurrence of signs and symptoms in participants of a cardiac rehabilitation program.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Lifestyle and patterns of physical activity in Hadza foragers.American journal of biological anthropology · 2023Article
- Stepping towards More Intuitive Physical Activity Metrics with Wrist-Worn Accelerometry: Validity of an Open-Source Step-Count Algorithm.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Dose-response association between step count and cardiovascular disease risk markers in middle-aged adults.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Several step-based daily targets have been widely circulated, but there is a lack of empirical population-based evidence to support such guidance. We examined dose-response associations between step count and classical CVD risk markers (glycated hemoglobin, high density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides, and C-reactive protein) in 4665 adults (aged 46 years; 51.4% female) in a cross-sectional study. Step counts were measured from a thigh mounted accelerometer (activPAL) worn over 7 days. The shape of the dose-response curve for most risk markers was "L-shaped," with linear risk reduction up to around 10 000 steps a day. Controlling for stepping intensity did not materially alter our results.
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