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Risk of Dying
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Data from just 6 minutes of walking, collected motion sensors in smartphones, may be enough to predict someone’s risk of dying in the next five years. Previous studies have estimated risk using daily physical activity level, measured by wearable motion sensors in devices like fitness watches. Yet despite the growing popularity of smart watches and fitness trackers, they are still mostly worn by an affluent . Most people own smartphones with similar sensors, but calculating mortality risk from activity data they gather is difficult because people don’t tend to carry their phones all day, says Bruce Schatz at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. To find an predictor that is measurable with smartphones, Schatz and his colleagues looked at data from 100,655 participants in the UK Biobank study, which has been collecting information on the health of middle-aged and senior adults living in the UK for more than 15 years. As part of that study, participants wore motion sensors on their wrists for one week. About 2 per cent of the participants died during the following five years.
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