Are you constantly looking at your watch or phone to check your step count as you strive to hit 10,000 steps a day?

Well, a new Mass General Brigham study shows that only 4,000 steps one or two days a week can lead to health benefits for a senior population.

Older women who took 4,000 steps on just one or two days per week had a 27% lower risk of cardiovascular disease and a 26% lower risk of death compared to those who got less steps, according to the researchers.

And with more steps came even greater benefits.

“In countries like the United States, advances in technology have made it such that we don’t really move very much, and older individuals are among those least active,” said senior author I-Min Lee, an epidemiologist in the Mass General Brigham Department of Medicine and the Di

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