date:Jan 04, 2019
, its worth pointing out the limitations to this study. For a start, all the 8,000 participants were aged 45 years and older so may not be representative of other age groups. Also, activity data was only collected for one week, so this might not be representative of activity levels for the entire study (participants were followed for four years).
In the study, a hip mounted accelerometer a device that measures the magnitude of accelerations was used to measure physical activity.
While this