Evidence has been accumulating over the past decade or so that walking can pay off big when it comes to conditions like hypertension, diabetes and dementia.
Similarly, two earlier studies that used activity data collected over one week found that fewer steps could have an impact on health. One, published in September, linked 10,000 steps as day to a 50 percent decrease in dementia risk. Walking less also decreased risk, but not as much. Walking at a brisk pace for half an hour diminished the risk even more, by 62 percent.
“The real strength of our study is that with continuous monitoring we can see how activity changes over the four years,” said study coauthor Dr. Evan Brittain, a cardiologist and an associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. “Also, we started our analysis from a totally unbiased perspective looking for associations between activity and 1,700 different conditions.”
People saw improvements even if they didn’t manage to hit 8,000 steps, Brittain said. “There is definitely still a benefit for step counts under 8,000,” he added. “I would absolutely say that people should get as many steps in as they can.” Still, Phillips said, if you have conditions that restrict your activity, “you shouldn’t ignore your body to hit a target. You can spread your activity throughout the day rather than having one set period.”
The major contribution of the study is that it provides a scientific basis to support the notion that people can protect themselves against risk factors for diabetes and hypertension by walking, said Dr. Erwin Bottinger, a professor of medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and co-director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai in New York.
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