Daily Steps as a Public Health Metric for Physical Activity Monitoring and Promotion
This review summarizes the evidence on the number and intensity of steps associated with health benefits. For older adults, 6000-8000 daily steps is associated with substantial cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality benefits and taking more than 8000 daily steps appears to be associated with additional benefit. For younger adults, taking 8000-10,000 daily steps is associated with substantial mortality benefit.
Authors
- Deborah A. Galuska
- Alpa V. Patel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9997-1218)
- William E. Kraus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1930-9684)
- Amanda E. Paluch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4244-9511)
- Kelly R. Evenson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3720-5830)
- Lingsong Kong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5192-6570)
- Janet E. Fulton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1514-415X)
- Alaina H. Shreves (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0127-4391)
- Barbara J. Jefferis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0850-3177)
- I-Min Lee
- Charles Edwards Matthews (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8037-3103)
- Ulf Ekelund (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2115-9267)
- Aiden Doherty (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1840-0451)
- Pardis Parvizi
- Scott R. Small (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3603-8062)
- Charilaos Zisou
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- American Cancer Society (US)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NO)
- Harvard University (US)
- Duke University (US)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (US)
- Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (US)
- Novo Nordisk (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Duke Medical Center (US)
- National Cancer Institute (US)
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
- University College London (GB)
- Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NO)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews
- Published
- 2025-10-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1249/jes.0000000000000375
- Primary Topic
- Physical Activity and Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00