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SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Seniors with cardiovascular diseases can lower their risk of death through regular exercise, a study showed Thursday.
A research team from Severance Hospital conducted a study of 6,076 seniors (average age of 72 years) diagnosed with cardiovascular diseases during the 2003 to 2012 health examinations and looked at how exercise affects fatality.
The research team divided the subjects into ‘consistent non-exercise group’, ‘exercise-abort group’, ‘non-exercise turned regular-exercise group’ and ‘consistent exercise group’ based on the amount they exercised and compared them with the number of individuals who had passed away by 2014.
The results showed that members of the ‘consistent non-exercise group’ and ‘exercise-abort group’ had 4.9 and 5.1 deaths per 100 people, respectively, throughout the investigation period.
In contrast, the ‘non-exercise turned regular-exercise group’ and ‘consistent exercise group’ only had 3.3 and 2.7 deaths per 100.
Setting the risk of death for the ‘consistent non-exercise group’ as a value of 1, the fatality risk of the ‘non-exercise turned regular-exercise group’ and the ‘consistent exercise group’ stood at 0.67 and 0.57, respectively.
The fatality risk of the ‘exercise-abort group’ stood at 0.95, which was more or less equivalent to the ‘consistent non-exercise group’.
M. H. Lee (mhlee@koreabizwire.com)
