Physical condition can predict heart risks

• May 6, 2024

How fast do you run a mile (1.6 kilometers)?

For middle-aged people this simple fact about their physical condition It can help predict the risk of heart problems. The Southwest School of Medicine of the University of Texas and the Cooper Institute in Dallas they found that the speed at which you run 1.6 kilometers allows you to measure the level of fitness.

The researchers studied more than 66 thousand people, who were put on treadmills and their cardiovascular resistance Y muscular fatigue . When analyzing the data, the researchers suggested that the results of the treadmill could be expressed in the average speed in which a person takes 1.6 kilometers. The research data showed that the level of condition of a person can be used as a health forecast for the heart in the long term through a simple formula that measures the level of physical condition.

Both studies, "how fast you can run in middle age", are strongly related to the risk of heart failure in old age, so that the exercise you do at age 40 is highly relevant to the risk of heart failure at age 80.

Of course more studies are still required, before this information can be used as an accepted reference point to measure the cardiovascular risk . The condition varies a lot with age and gender, the calculations of career times are just simple reference points for patients and doctors to initiate a conversation about physical condition. How fast do you run 1.6 kilometers?

Source The New York Times  

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