Taking 12,000 steps per day was associated with a 65% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared with taking 4,000 steps per day.
Notes on verification
Multiple independent sources (NCI, NIA, ScienceDaily, Wiley/Cancer journal) corroborate the exact figure from the peer-reviewed JAMA study by Saint-Maurice et al. 2020.
Sources
- Higher Daily Step Count Linked with Lower All-cause ... (archive.cdc.gov)
- https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/press-releases/2020/daily-step-count-mortality?cid=eb_govdel (cancer.gov)
- https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/higher-daily-step-count-linked-lower-all-cause-mortality (nia.nih.gov)
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