Pick up the pace! Slow walkers four times more likely to die from COVID-19, study finds

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12. No, that's really a ridiculous comparison - "along the lines of 'gambling causes cancer'"

If you think that walking distance and regularity may well be a far more accurate assessment, you could do a study to investigate that, but the point is there are already studies showing that "self-reported walking pace has been shown to be a stronger predictor of cardiovascular mortality than other measures of physical activity or function".

Elite athletes are a tiny proportion of the population, and would not affect such a study.

"Medical history, including prevalent illnesses, were assessed by interview during baseline visit; ethnicity was self-reported and social deprivation defined by the Townsend Index (a composite measure of deprivation based on unemployment, non-car ownership, non-home ownership, and household overcrowding; negative values represent less deprivation)."