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Bringing It Home: The Shift in Where Health Care Is Delivered

Bringing It Home: The Shift in Where Health Care Is Delivered News & Analysis • Women who averaged approximately diet, and lifestyle. They also reanalyzed the Steps and All-Cause Mortality 4400 daily steps had lower mortality data, with similar results, after excluding Quartile 1 rates than those who took about 2700 women who may not have been in good Median steps per day: 2718 steps a day. health based on factors like diabetes, can- No. deaths: 275 • There was a dose response, particu- cer, or underweight. No. of women: 4185 larly at the lower, or inactive, end of the Quartile 2 spectrum. What the Researchers Say Median steps per day: 4363 • There were additional declines in mor- According to the study’s lead author, I-Min No. deaths: 103 tality among women who hoofed it Lee, MD, ScD, of Brigham and Women’s more—but only up to about 7500 daily Hospital and Harvard Medical School in No. of women: 4185 steps, beyond which the death rates lev- Boston, the results likely apply to all indi- Quartile 3 eled out. viduals who are not very active, including Median steps per day: 5905 • Walking faster or slower didn’t appear to men and younger women. No. deaths: 77 affect mortality rates when the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

Bringing It Home: The Shift in Where Health Care Is Delivered

Hardin, Lauran; Mason, Diana J.
JAMA , Volume 322 (6) – Aug 13, 2019
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0098-7484
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10.1001/jama.2019.11302
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News & Analysis • Women who averaged approximately diet, and lifestyle. They also reanalyzed the Steps and All-Cause Mortality 4400 daily steps had lower mortality data, with similar results, after excluding Quartile 1 rates than those who took about 2700 women who may not have been in good Median steps per day: 2718 steps a day. health based on factors like diabetes, can- No. deaths: 275 • There was a dose response, particu- cer, or underweight. No. of women: 4185 larly at the lower, or inactive, end of the Quartile 2 spectrum. What the Researchers Say Median steps per day: 4363 • There were additional declines in mor- According to the study’s lead author, I-Min No. deaths: 103 tality among women who hoofed it Lee, MD, ScD, of Brigham and Women’s more—but only up to about 7500 daily Hospital and Harvard Medical School in No. of women: 4185 steps, beyond which the death rates lev- Boston, the results likely apply to all indi- Quartile 3 eled out. viduals who are not very active, including Median steps per day: 5905 • Walking faster or slower didn’t appear to men and younger women. No. deaths: 77 affect mortality rates when the

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Published: Aug 13, 2019

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