Just 500 extra steps a day lowers heart disease risk for older adults

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A survey of adults aged 70 and older recovered that each other 500 steps – conscionable nether fractional a kilometre – walked per time tin trim hazard of bosom illness and changeable by 14 per cent

By Grace Wade

2 March 2023

Two aged women walking crossed pedestrian are, backmost view

Walking conscionable 500 other steps a time whitethorn little the hazard of cardiovascular illness successful older adults.

While it is good known that regular workout tin trim the hazard of bosom disease, it is little wide conscionable however overmuch – oregon however small – carnal enactment is needed to marque a difference.

To larn more, Erin Dooley astatine the University of Alabama astatine Birmingham and her colleagues collected information from 452 adults betwixt the ages of …

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