Experts reveal how many steps women should take to ‘reduce the risk of early death by 26%’

KANIKA SINGH RATHORE,

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experts has revealed that old women People who walk 4,000 steps a day reduce their chances of early death by more than a quarter.

Women who walked that many steps a day, just once or twice a week, reduced their chances of early death by 26 percent. Research found.

The study said that to reduce mortality and risk, it is important to know how much people walk, not how many days they walk. heart disease,

It also suggested that criteria such as the requirement to walk 10,000 steps every day are wrong, adding “there is no ‘better’ or ‘best’ pattern for taking steps”.

He said movement is important and “individuals can perform physical activity in any preferred pattern”.

The study found that, compared with women who were fairly sedentary, those who walked 4,000 steps a day one or two days a week had a 26 percent lower risk of death from any cause and a 27 percent lower risk of heart disease.

Harvard University researchers suggest new physical activity guidelines for older women after conducting study
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Getting it three days a week had greater benefits, reducing the risk of early death by 40 percent and reducing the risk of heart disease by 27 percent.

Even more exercise (5,000 to 7,000 steps) caused greater declines but these were more modest.

Here, the risk of death was 32 percent lower, but the risk of death from heart disease was 16 percent.

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The researchers, including those from Harvard University in the US, said the study found that “the number of steps per day, rather than the frequency of days/week reaching a particular step threshold, is what is important” for reducing the risk of early death and heart disease in older women.

They added: “Physical activity guidelines in older women should consider recommending walking at least 4,000 steps per day one to two days per week to reduce the risk of mortality and cardiovascular disease.”

The study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, initially involved 13,547 women free of heart disease and cancer, who were typically around 72 years old.

The women wore the devices for seven consecutive days to measure their step counts and were tracked for about 11 years.

During this period, 1,765 women (13 percent) died and 781 (5.1 percent) developed heart disease.

The team concluded that “regardless of daily patterns, a greater number of steps is associated with better health outcomes”.

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