BOSTON — Are you constantly looking at your watch or phone to check your step count as you strive to hit 10,000 steps a day? Well, a new Mass General Brigham study shows that only 4,000 steps one or ...

A large study suggested that older women who took at least 4,000 steps 1-2 days per week had lower risks of death and heart disease. Participants who reached that threshold 3 or more days per week had ...

Are you a step counter, aiming for 10,000 steps per day to stay healthy? Many studies have suggested you don't need to hit that mark to maintain good health and live longer. And now the largest study ...

For years, step targets have been framed as daily quotas that must be met every day. Many older adults worry that missing days erases progress. A large cohort of women in their seventies offers a more ...

Objective To examine the associations between the number of days per week achieving various daily step thresholds and all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence in older women.