For many years, doctors have relied on established guidelines to determine the fitness levels (and, perhaps they didn’t tell you, the life expectancies) of men. Women who wanted to learn their fitness levels could use the same guidelines, but without the same authority, because even the doctors who were too busy to establish guidelines for women knew that the men’s guidelines did not apply to women, exactly. Now a study of more than 5,000 women has written the rules to help women find out where they stand in terms of fitness, and yes, life expectancy. The study, published in the August 4 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, found that women have a slightly lower exercise capacity than men, and that their capacity declines a bit more rapidly than does men’s as they age. Reporting on the study, the San Francisco Chronicle tell us that researchers found that women whose exercise capacity was less than 85 percent of what it should be were
twice as likely to die within eight years. Good to know. Read the Chronicle’s report, or see what you can make of the writing in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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