2024-04-30 06:22:00
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It has been proven once once more that simply taking the stairs regularly in your daily life can greatly benefit your health.
A new study presented last week at the European Society of Cardiology conference found that people who habitually use stairs have a 39% lower risk of death from heart disease than people who don’t use stairs.
Stair users also had a 24% reduction in risk of death from all causes and overall risk of death from heart attack, heart failure or stroke.
This study was a meta-analysis of nine studies involving 480,479 participants (53% female) aged 35 to 84 with varying health histories.
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Study author Dr Sophie Paddock from the University of East Anglia, UK, said: “Based on these findings, we recommend that people include stair climbing in their daily routine. »
“Our research suggests that climbing more stairs may bring greater benefits, but this needs to be confirmed,” she said, adding: “Taking the stairs at work, at home or elsewhere.”
How many stairs would one have to climb per day to receive these health rewards?
According to a study cited by the New York Post on the 30th (Korean time), climbing 6 to 10 floors every day reduces the risk of premature death, and another study found that climbing 5 floors a day reduced the risk of premature death by 20 heart disease. %. appear.
Dr. Manish Parikh, chief of cardiology at New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, explained that our bodies respond immediately and favorably when we climb stairs.
“Heart rate increases, cardiac output (the amount of blood pumped by a person’s heart per minute) increases, circulation improves,” he said. “And all of these things we know have positive effects,” he said in a statement. interview with public radio NPR.
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A study published in February showed that climbing stairs can improve cardiometabolic risk indicators such as body composition, blood pressure, cholesterol levels and insulin sensitivity in just 4 to 8 weeks.
Experts explain that stair climbing combines aerobic exercise and resistance training to increase your heart rate and strengthen your leg muscles, which may have greater effects than regular aerobic exercise.
Don’t be greedy from the start and start step by step, but it is also useful to check the amount of exercise using a tool such as Apple Watch.
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Dr. Carlin Long, a cardiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, suggested an appropriate target range for climbing stairs.
“I think if people might climb six to 10 flights of stairs a day, that would be a good goal,” he told NPR.
There are also things to pay attention to. The pressure on the knee joints is much greater when going down stairs than when going up. Therefore, experts advise using the elevator or going down slowly.
Park Hae-sik, Donga.com reporter [email protected]
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