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Dorothy Brooks

Step Counts and Sleep Consistency Were Linked to Later Depression Diagnoses in a Fitbit Study of 3,030 Adults

Researchers combined something inherited and something behavioral in the same statistical model, then asked which adults later received a depression diagnosis in their medical records.

The behavioral half came from Fitbits worn for months on end. The inherited half came from genome data. Several ordinary daily patterns, including the number of steps people took and the consistency of their sleep duration, were associated with who was later diagnosed.

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