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. [cascade flags: aggregator_dropped_primary_exists | tier=silver indep_score=1.0 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Higher Daily Step Count Linked with Lower All-cause ... (seed:health_and_medicine)
- 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)
- https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cncr.33278 (corroboration)