In a study of approximately 4,800 U.S. adults aged 40 and older, taking 8,000 steps per day was associated with a 51% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared with taking 4,000 steps per day.
Notes on verification
Corroborated by multiple government and independent sources (NIH, NCI, NIA, ScienceDaily) all consistent with the original JAMA study (Saint-Maurice et al., 2020) using NHANES accelerometer data. [cascade flags: aggregator_dropped_primary_exists | tier=bronze indep_score=0.539 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Higher Daily Step Count Linked with Lower All-cause ... (seed:health_and_medicine)
- https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/higher-daily-step-count-linked-lower-all-cause-mortality (corroboration)
- https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/press-releases/2020/daily-step-count-mortality?cid=eb_govdel (corroboration)
- https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/higher-daily-step-count-linked-lower-all-cause-mortality (corroboration)