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Patterns and Clinical Outcomes of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Across 20 Million Days of Wearable Monitoring in U.S. Adults

2026-02-12 public and global health Title + abstract only
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BackgroundPhysical activity is a key modifiable determinant of health, yet current guidelines primarily emphasize moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and provide limited guidance on other actionable dimensions such as daily step count and sedentary time. The growing availability of wearables enables high-resolution measurement of these metrics and assessment of their associations with clinical outcomes. MethodsMinute-level wearable data from adult participants of All of Us between 2015-2023 ...

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