Is 4400 Steps per Day the New 10 000 Steps per Day?
Elroy J Aguiar1, Scott W Ducharme1, Diana M Thomas2
1Department of Kinesiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
JAMA Internal Medicine
|November 5, 2019
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