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Stroke Risks Halved By Physical Fitness In Forty-Plus Individuals
December 11, 2007 at 7:08 PM
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Lead author Phyo Kyaw Myint, MRCP, with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, said: People who reported better physical health had significantly lower risk of stroke. This is independent of the known risk factors for stroke in the general population.
Researchers studied 13,615 men and women between 40 and 79 years of age from 1993 to 1997 who had not suffered a stroke, heart attack or cancer.
The participants were told to complete a self-reported test on their physical function 18 months later that observed how well they were able to climb stairs, carry groceries, kneel, bend and lift.
The researchers supervised how many strokes were suffered in this group through 2005.
The study found that people who topped the physical function test had 50-percent lower risk of stroke than those with the lowest test scores.
The results remained unaffected even after adjusting for age, sex, body mass index, high blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking, diabetes, physical activity, social class, alcohol consumption and respiratory function.
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