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Dr. Daniel Edmundowicz Offers Comment to Flow Space on New Research About the Benefits of Walking for Heart Health

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Daniel Edmundowicz, MD, MBA, FACP, FACC, Richard and Dorothy Evans Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, offered comment to Flow Space on a meta-analysis and systemic review published in the Lancet that found that getting 7,000 steps per day showed the lowest hazard ratio for dying from heart disease, even compared to higher step counts.