Those who walk fast live longer, a new study says

Those who walk faster live longer, a new study says. Researchers from the University of Leicester have analyzed the data of 474,919 people with the average age of 52 in “U n K Biobank” between 2006 and 2016 writes “Daily Mail”. They found that women who had walked fast had a life span of 86.7 to 87.8 years, while men who kept the same pace had life expectancy from 85.2 to 86.8, broadcast Koha.net. Those who walked slowly had bleak prospects: women had life expectancy of 72.4 years, while men of 64.8 years were calmer in their movements.

According to the study, published last week in the magazine “Mayo Clinic Proceedings”, the report was the same as if the fast - walking people have passed several times on overweight. This does not mean that those who move fast will live longer, the report shows only one corruption, not a cause-effective one, but experts say that the speed of walking may be one way for doctors to judge their patients' general health along with other tests. It is difficult for the first study to maintain the speed of walking as a powerful factor that seems to promote and define our health.

In 2011, the Association “The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)” published a study of the professor of geriatric medicine, Stephanie Studenski, of the University of Pittsburgh, which had similar findings: walking speed was a reliable predictor of life expectancy. In 2013, American researchers found that walking was linked to the lowest risk of heart disease and longer life expectancy, says Koha.net. And last year, a study by Sydney University has found that increasing the pace of walking to a “average speed” can lower the risk of premature death.

And Tom Yates, professor of physical activity in Leicester who stands behind this latest study, has published the findings of this conglomerate over the years. In 2017, he analyzed the same data of “U n K Biobank” and found that walking speed seems to affect the risk of death from heart disease by concluding that those who walk slower can suffer twice as much from heart disease as those who walk faster.

These are just a few examples. The new study simply adds weight to the findings, which experts say are powerful enough for doctors to describe routinely the rapid walk of their patients.

Our findings can help clarify the relative importance of exercise compared to the body's weight in the life expectancy of”, Yates said at a press conference. “Studies published so far have largely shown the impact of body weight and exercise on mortality related to the relative risk”, said Francesco Zaccard, clinical epidemiologist at the Leicester Diabetes Centre and coauthor of the study.

However, it is not always easy to interpret a relative risk. Life expectancy reporting, vice versa, is easier to interpret and offers the best idea of the shared and shared importance of the body mass index and physical exercise”, Zaccard concluded.