2024-03-02 13:30:53
Men need to do almost twice as much physical exercise as women to obtain the same cardiovascular benefits, according to a study by the Smidt Heart Institute in Los Angeles, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
The researchers analyzed data on physical activity performed by 412,413 adults, 55 percent of them women, in the period 1997-2019 from the United States National Health Survey.
The researchers examined gender-specific outcomes regarding frequency, duration, intensity, and type of physical activity, concluding that women gain more cardiovascular health benefits from exercise than men.
STRENGTH WOMEN
“For all adults who reported participating in any regular physical activity, compared to being inactive, the risk of mortality was predictably lower, although women reduced it by 24 percent with sport and men by 15 percent,” it says. one of the authors, Susan Cheng.
The researchers also looked at moderate to vigorous aerobic physical activity, such as brisk walking or cycling, and found that men achieved their greatest cardiovascular health benefit by doing this type of exercise five hours a week, while women They achieved the same with two and a half hours a week.
When it came to muscle-strengthening activities, such as weight lifting, men achieved their maximum benefit by doing three sessions a week and women gained the same benefit from regarding one session a week.
MORE EXERCISE, BETTER HEALTH
According to Cheng, women got even greater benefits if they did more than two and a half hours a week of moderate-to-vigorous aerobic activity, or two or more weekly sessions of muscle-strengthening activities.
Taking all types of exercise and all variables into account, the scientists confirmed that men get the greatest survival benefit from 300 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity per week, while women get the same benefit from 140 minutes.
Although “women continue to obtain more benefits up to 300 minutes per week,” says Cheng.
The researchers note that their findings help move the longstanding recognition of sex-specific physiology observed in the exercise laboratory to a now expanded view of sex differences in exercise-related clinical outcomes.
(Photos: Taken from DW Español)
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