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Treadmill Performance Predicts Mortality
An anonymous reader writes: Cardiologists from Johns Hopkins have published an analysis of exercise data that strongly links a patient's performance on a treadmill to their risk of dying. Using data from stress tests of over 58,000 people, they report: "[A]mong people of the same age and gender, fitness level as measured by METs and peak heart rate reached during exercise were the greatest indicators of death risk. Fitness level was the single most powerful predictor of death and survival, even after researchers accounted for other important variables such as diabetes and family history of premature death — a finding that underscores the profound importance of heart and lung fitness, the investigators say." The scoring system is from -200 to +200. People scoring between -100 and 0 face an 11% risk of dying in the next decade. People scoring between -200 and -100 face a 38% risk of death within the next decade. People scoring above zero face only a 3% chance or less.
Does the daily treadmill at the office also count?
bickerdyke
strongly links a patient's performance on a treadmill to their risk of dying.
Sounds like the best way to prolong your life is to avoid treadmills
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I, for one, am shocked to find out that smoking is harmful to your health, and that high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and lack of exercise might lead to an early death.
They should win the goddamn Nobel prize.
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Fitness level was the single most powerful predictor of death
Who'd a thunk?
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Inconceivable!
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Don't we already know that female's are more likely to live longer with no clear identifiable cause beyond they are female?
This is unfair discrimination against males. If women can demand equal salaries, we should be able to demand equal lifespan.
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