Monday, 2 March 2015

Person's Ability to Exercise on a Treadmill Predicts Mortality

Johns Hopkins cardiologists report they have developed a formula that estimates one's risk of dying over a decade based on a person's ability to exercise on a treadmill at an increasing speed and incline. They analyzed data from 58,000 heart stress tests. Several exercise-based risk scoring systems already in use are designed to measure short-term risk of dying but do so strictly among patients with established heart disease or overt signs of cardiovascular trouble. ...




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