The middle aged people who are worried about having a heart attack could put their mind at rest because a simple jogging test could reveal their risk of having a heart attack. The study found that how fast a middle-aged man could run a mile could find out their risk of heart attack over the next ten years.
The research team from UT Southwestern Medical Center gathered information of eleven thousand males in years between 1970 and 1990 those underwent a clinical exam and a treadmill workout at Cooper Clinic in Dallas. The team revealed that more than eleven hundred males died of heart attack or stroke before 2006.
After investigating statistics and considering other risk aspects like smoking and drinking habit, the team was capable to envisage a risk of men of developing heart disease on the basis of their running time. The team found that men aged fifty-five those took fifteen minutes to run a mile had thirty percent lifetime threat of dying from heart disease.
In comparison to those men of same age who could run a mile in eight minutes had less than ten percent a lifetime risk of heart disease. According Dr Jarett Berry, co-author, heart disease tends to huddle at older ages, but the prescription for prevention needs to occur earlier when a person is in his forties and fifties.
The higher level fitness lowered the lifetime risk of heart disease even in people with other risk aspects, reported the study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. In another study that uses a second set of Cooper Clinic statistics found that treadmill test could also envisage if middle-aged women would continue to develop heart disease.
Almost all women under the age of fifty are at low risk for heart disease. But, as women get older, their risk increases dramatically. In their study, they found that low levels of fitness were particularly helpful in identifying women at risk for heart disease over the long term, stated Dr Berry.