Walking just 4,000 steps per day is associated with a lower risk of death, according to an analysis published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.
Each additional 1,000 steps a person walked per day was associated with a 15% reduction in their risk of death, a new study found.New research challenges the common idea that people need to reach a threshold of 10,000 steps per day to improve their health.analysisThe research pooled the results of 17 studies that looked at the health benefits associated with step counts across six countries.
The analysis included people who took as many as 20,000 steps per day and did not find an upper limit to the health benefits of walking. Younger adults saw a greater reduction in the overall risk of death compared to older adults, the results showed. The studies that his team analyzed included almost 227,000 participants in total, most of whom were generally healthy, and followed people for an average of seven years. The participants came from Australia, Japan, Norway, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The study suggested that for people under age 60, walking between 7,000 and 13,000 steps per day lowered the overall risk of death by 49%. For those ages 60 and older, walking 6,000 to 10,000 daily steps lowered the risk by 42%.
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