A man over 50 needs to exercise properly if he wants to keep his heart healthy – a woman can get by with less

Over Apparently, men in their 50s need to exercise much more than women if they want to keep their heart healthy.

This was discovered when the researchers analyzed the data provided by the activity bracelets.

The data showed that men over 50 need nearly nine hours a week of moderate to vigorous exercise if they want to reduce their risk of coronary heart disease by 30 percent.

The women needed about four hours of exercise to achieve the same result.

Moderately strenuous exercise was interpreted in the study as, for example, brisk walking or cycling.

long it is suspected that a woman’s heart would benefit more from exercise than a man’s heart. This estimate was made based on the women’s self-reported exercise.

The problem with self-reporting is that the numbers are not always accurate.

Therefore, a researcher in cardiovascular diseases Jiajin Chen He and his colleagues from Xiamen University in China searched for information on data from activity bracelets. It had been assembled UK Biopankin studies in Britain.

The researchers compared the data recorded by the wristbands with the health data of the participants in the study over a long period of about eight years, says the science magazine New Scientist.

Group first examined data from 80,243 adults with an average age of 61 years. No signs of bad coronary arteries had been found in them.

Those women who exercised at least 150 minutes a week at moderate or vigorous intensity experienced a 22 percent reduction in the risk associated with coronary heart disease.

In men, the same amount of exercise reduced the risk of coronary artery disease by only 17 percent.

If you wanted to reduce the risk by 30 percent, it required much more exercise. Gender differences were much larger then. Women had to move for 250 minutes and men 530 minutes to reach the goal.

For comparison, the researchers looked at 5,169 participants who already had coronary artery disease. Their average age was 67 years. Two thirds of them were men.

The study was published by science journal Nature Cardiovascular Research.

IF WOMAN engaged in 150 minutes of moderate or strenuous exercise during the week, the woman’s probability of dying decreased properly. Over the course of eight years, it was 70 percent lower than in women who exercised less.

For men, the reading was different. A man’s probability of dying was about 20 percent lower if he did the same 150 minutes of moderate or strenuous exercise a week.

“Although this information may reassure a woman, women should not forget to exercise either,” reminds the researcher of aging and exercise training Tir from Monash University, Australia.

Chen suggests that hormones could explain the differences in exercise between men and women. A high level of estrogen may increase fat burning during exercise.

It can also be related to biological differences. Women’s metabolism and muscle strength are proportionally higher when they perform the same exercises as men, says Eynon.

The study focused on a well-educated population. About 93 percent of them were light-skinned, reminds the researcher of heart diseases Ersilia DeFilippis from Columbia University in New York.

Black women have worse cardiovascular disease status. The weak have a greater burden of cardiovascular diseases, he reminds.

Correction on Sunday 2.11. 11:29 a.m.: In the title and summary of the article, it was previously incorrectly stated that a man over 50 needs to exercise more than twice as much as a woman if he wants to maintain his heart health.