Exercise Shown to Protect Men, Not Women, from Stroke

One more gender injustice has emerged from research conducted at the Columbia University Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia. It seems that moderate to heavy exercise offers some defense from stroke to men, but it does nothing to reduce strokes in women. Yes. Life is not fair. An American Academy of Neurology press release described the study, which followed 3,298 people,
average age 69, for about nine years. The researchers found that men who did moderate-to-heavy intensity activities were 63
percent less likely to have a stroke than people with no physical
activity. The baseline risk of ischemic stroke over five years in the
entire group was 4.3 percent; among those with moderate-to-heavy
intensity activities the risk was 2.7 percent, and among those with no
activity it was 4.6 percent. Women who took part in moderate-to-heavy intensity exercise did not have a reduced risk of stroke.

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