title: Clinical Inquiry: Do pedometers increase activity and improve health outcomes?
abstract: In overweight and obese patients, exercise interventions using a pedometer increase steps by about a mile per day over the same interventions without access to pedometer information and are associated with a modest 4 mm Hg reduction in systolic blood pressure (BP) over baseline. In overweight patients with diabetes, pedometer use with nutritional counseling is associated with 0.86 kg greater weight loss than nutritional counseling alone.
authors.affiliation: University of Washington at Valley Family Medicine Residency, Renton, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Devin
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schock
authors.affiliation: University of Washington at Valley Family Medicine Residency, Renton, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Jon O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Neher
authors.affiliation: University of Washington Health Science Library, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Safranek
mesh_terms: D056044:Actigraphy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016138:Walking / Q000502:physiology*