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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
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Ketsuda Phoutinane & Matt Gibson & Sophie Collins

New study shows dementia risk 'could be reduced' by walking specific number of steps a day

A new study has found that people can cut their risk of dementia significantly if they walk as little as 3,800 steps a day.

Researchers used a large-scale source of medical information - from UK Biobank - in order to come to this conclusion.

They linked the step count of more than 78,500 adults between the ages of 40 and 79 and compared their health outcomes over seven years.

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