Association between daily step counts and healthy life years: a national cross-sectional study in Japan.
BMJ Health Care Inform
; 31(1)2024 Apr 30.
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in En
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| ID: mdl-38688685
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Despite accumulating evidence concerning the association between daily step counts and mortality or disease risks, it is unclear whether daily step counts are associated with healthy life years.METHODS:
We used the combined dataset of the Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions and the National Health and Nutrition Survey conducted for a randomly sampled general population in Japan, 2019. Daily step counts were measured for 4957 adult participants. The associations of daily step counts with activity limitations in daily living and self-assessed health were evaluated using a multivariable logistic regression model. The bootstrap method was employed to mitigate uncertainties in estimating the threshold of daily step counts.RESULTS:
The median age was 60 (44-71) years, and 2592 (52.3%) were female. The median daily step counts were 5650 (3332-8452). The adjusted OR of activity limitations in daily living for the adjacent daily step counts was 0.27 (95% CI 0.26 to 0.27) for all ages and 0.25 (95% CI 0.25 to 0.26) for older adults at the lowest, with the thresholds of significant association at 9000 step counts. The OR of self-assessed unhealthy status was 0.45 (95% CI 0.44 to 0.46) for all ages and 0.42 (95% CI 0.41 to 0.43) for older adults at the lowest, with the thresholds at 11 000 step counts.CONCLUSION:
Daily step counts were significantly associated with activity limitations in daily living and self-assessed health as determinants of healthy life years, up to 9000 and 11 000 step counts, respectively. These results suggest a target of daily step counts to prolong healthy life years within health initiatives.Key words
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Activities of Daily Living
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Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
En
Journal:
BMJ Health Care Inform
Year:
2024
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Article
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