A new study has found that women reap greater benefits in reducing their risk of death by engaging in the same amount of physical activity as men.
In a study published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology, From 1997 to 2019, a team from institutions including Tsinghua University School of Clinical Medicine in Beijing tested 412,423 U.S. adults (55% female, age 44 ± 17 years). Smit Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. and Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco.
Participants provided data about their exercise habits. For aerobic exercise, the impact on all-cause and cardiovascular mortality was examined using adjustable variables of frequency, duration, intensity, and type. Similarly, the level of strength-strengthening exercise was used to classify participants as physically active or inactive.
What were the benefits for women compared to men?
The results show that both men and women see maximum benefits with about 300 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) per week, after which they plateau, but women see more benefits in less time. I found out that I can actually feel it.
Men had an 18% reduced risk of all-cause mortality over this period. In contrast, women could set their MVPA much lower at 140 minutes per week and still get the same benefits as exercise time increased. If she performed 300 minutes of work per week, her risk of early death from any cause decreased by 24%.
The largest gender difference was seen in vigorous physical activity (VPA), with men having a 19% lower risk of all-cause mortality after doing 110 minutes of this type of exercise per week, compared to women having a lower risk of all-cause mortality after just 57 minutes. The same increase was seen. VPA for 1 week. Furthermore, for women, 110 minutes per week was associated with a 24% lower risk of death.
“Our study…encourages women who don’t get enough exercise for a variety of reasons that even relatively small amounts of exercise can have significant benefits,” said the study’s co-authors. Dr. Hongwei Ji from the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University said:said to Guardian.
“The 300-minute threshold is where the greatest effect was observed, but statistically significant sex differences also emerge at even lower doses,” Ji said.
Exercising 140 minutes a week reduced women’s risk of premature death from any cause by 18%.
Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis of the University of Sydney, who was not involved in the study, also suggested: guardian The difference in responses is likely due to “women putting in more physical effort than men for certain physical tasks,” she said. She also thought that women’s exercise sessions likely reflected higher relative demands than men, and that the findings reflected differences in skeletal muscle composition between the sexes.
Dr. Susan Chen, a co-author of the study from the Smit Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, also said:: “We hope so [we] It can help some women who are too busy or scared to start a new exercise routine…compare how hard they are working and how hard they are working against men and others. Please know that you don’t have to. ”
How much exercise should I do?
The NHS recommends that adults aged 19 to 64 get at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise a week. They recommend that adults do at least two days of strength-building activities that work all major muscle groups: legs, hips, back, abdomen, chest, shoulders, and arms.
However, research shows that women consistently have moderate to less physical activity than men, and that cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer have far-reaching effects on their health.
A new study reported that women have a 36% lower risk of heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases than women who don’t exercise regularly.
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