The heart health benefits begin at lower than 10,000 steps per day.
As part of the Steps for Health Collaborative, Paluch and colleagues examined the dose-response relationship between steps per day and CVD in a meta-analysis of eight prospective studies involving 20,152 adults .
CVD risk was 38% lower in older adults in quartile 3 who got a median of 5520 steps per day and 49% lower in those in quartile 4 who walked the most .Among six studies that excluded adults with a history of CVD at baseline, compared with the lowest quartile, the HR for incident CVD events was 0.74 in the second quartile, 0.60 in the third quartile, and 0.55 in the fourth quartile.
Stepping rate was not associated with CVD risk beyond that of total steps per day. However, only four of the eight studies reported data on stepping rate, so this finding should be viewed as preliminary, Paluch and colleagues say.Paluch said the take-home message from this study and numerous others is simple.
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