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    Passive smartphone monitoring of people’s walking activity can be used to construct population-level models of health and mortality risk, according to a new study publishing October 20 in the open access journal PLOS Digital Health by Bruce Schatz of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S., and colleagues.

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