Digestery
Lifestyle practices › Daily Steps and Lifespan › Studies

Population study: followed a group

Study of 57 people with cancer: fewer steps linked to hospital stay or death

Manz and colleagues · Journal of medical Internet research · 2024

Original title: Association of Remote Patient-Reported Outcomes and Step Counts With Hospitalization or Death Among Patients With Advanced Cancer Undergoing Chemotherapy: Secondary Analysis of the PROStep Randomized Trial.

Under review. A person has not yet checked this summary against the paper. It is written from the PubMed abstract. Until a person checks it, search engines are asked not to list this page.

What the study found

Points to benefit

Each 1000 fewer steps went with 16% greater odds of hospital stay or death (aOR 1.2). Steps fell 16% in the week before.

The study at a glance

Type of study
Population study: followed a group
Who or what was studied
57 people · Adults with advanced stomach, bowel or lung cancer on chemotherapy
What was tested
Tracked symptoms and Fitbit steps and linked them to hospital stays or death
What it measured
Several kinds of outcomes
Trial registration
NCT04616768
Who has a stake
Company stake
Authors report ties to Genentech, GNS Healthcare, Onc.AI, Humana and others; not step-device makers.
Journal
Journal of medical Internet research, 2024
Source
PubMed record 38758583. This page is based on the abstract only.

How much this study counts

  • –Shows a link, not a cause: people chose their own habits, and other differences between them may explain the result.
  • ✓Followed people over time, so habits were recorded before the outcome happened.
  • •57 people.
  • •Measured several kinds of outcomes.
  • –Company stake: Authors report ties to Genentech, GNS Healthcare, Onc.AI, Humana and others; not step-device makers.
  • •Summarized from the PubMed abstract only. The full paper may hold details the abstract leaves out.

✓ Strength– Limit• Note

These points come from fixed rules about the type of study, its size and length, what it measured, and who has a stake. Every study on Digestery gets the same rules.

Where this study sits

Each dot is one on-topic paper on this question. Steps near the top answer the question more directly.

↑ Stronger evidence

  1. Trials in people: death from any cause

    0

    Not done yet. This is the step that would answer the question.

  2. Trials in people: other measures

    0

    None among the papers we read.

  3. Trials in people: lab tests or safety

    0

    None among the papers we read.

  4. Population studies

    10

    9 benefit, 1 no difference

    ↑ This study is the ringed dot

  5. Blood levels and genes

    0

    None among the papers we read.

↓ Weaker evidence

  • Points to benefit
  • Mixed
  • No difference
  • No direction
  • Points to harm

How it fits with the other research

The short answer to “How many steps a day lower the risk of early death?”

About 6,000 to 10,000 steps; fewer if older.

Confidence: low. Based on 17 on-topic papers.

Read the full answer

Of the other 9 papers on the same step: 8 benefit, 1 no difference. This one found benefit. It agrees with most of them.

Other papers on the same step

See all 17 studies on this question

How this page was made

Label

First read of the abstract
Claude Sonnet
Independent second read
Claude Haiku
Differences settled
The reviewer corrected 2 fields after reading the abstract. Claude Opus 5.5.
Headline
Claude Sonnet, from the checked study record. A script checked its numbers and wording.
Numbers
Checked against the abstract by a script
“How much this study counts”
Fixed rules, the same for every study
Source check by a person
Not yet. Required before search engines may list this page.

Spot an error? Email a flag with a link to your source, or use the form on the question page.