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An increase in daily physical activity of 10 minutes could help to save more than 100,000 lives, researchers say.
In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine (JAMA Network), a team from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used activity monitor data to estimate the public health impact of small increases in physical activity across the U.S. adult population.
The data includes oversampling of non-Hispanic Black and Mexican Americans.
The organization said the researchers paired a week’s worth of activity monitor data from NHANES participants between 2003-2006 with National Death Index data available through the end of 2015.
“To our knowledge, this is the first study to estimate the number of preventable deaths through physical activity using accelerometer-based measurements among U.S. adults while recognizing that increasing activity may not be possible for everyone. However, [one] week of monitoring may not reflect changes in activity over time and the observational study design limits the direct determination of causality,” the authors wrote.
The National Cancer Institute highlighted that previous studies have shown physical activity improves human health, reducing the risk for several chronic diseases that cause premature death, including some cancers.
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