ArticleAmerican journal of lifestyle medicine2026
Wearable Health-Tracking Devices and Adherence to Physical Activity Guidelines Among US Adults, Including Those with Elevated Anxiety Symptoms: A Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Analysis of HINTS 7 (2024).
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Physical activity is a pillar of lifestyle medicine, yet most US adults do not meet aerobic guidelines, and inactivity is especially common among people with anxiety. Wearables enable self-monitoring, but population-level evidence linking them to guideline adherence among distressed adults is limited. We analyzed 6686 adults from the nationally representative Health Information National Trends Survey 7 (2024). The outcome was meeting the aerobic guideline (≥150 weekly minutes of at least moderate-intensity activity); the exposure was wearable device use for health tracking. Elevated anxiety was defined as a 2-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale score ≥3. Weighted logistic regression yielded odds ratios (ORs) adjusted for sociodemographic and health covariates. Wearable users were more likely than non-users to meet the guideline (48.1% vs 36.4%; adjusted OR, 1.59; 95% CI, 1.33-1.91;
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