The COVID-19 Pandemic and Daily Steps in the General Population: Meta-analysis of Observational Studies

• Main Authors: Ziying Wu (Author), Yilun Wang (Author), Yuqing Zhang (Author), Kim L Bennell (Author), Daniel K White (Author), Liusong Shen (Author), Wei Ren (Author), Jie Wei (Author), Chao Zeng (Author), Guanghua Lei (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to accelerate another pandemic: physical inactivity. Daily steps, a proxy of physical activity, are closely related to health. Recent studies indicate that over 7000 steps per day is the critical physical activity standard for minimizing the risk of...