Benefits of exercise differ by sex and race | Health | Reuters
How much health benefit you get from physical exercise might depend on your gender, and your race, new research suggests.
The key points:
Why so much variation ? No one knows. These are new results which might be contradicted by later research. This particular study used questionnaires which obviously depend upon the honest of participants.
The work is based on data from more than 15,000 middle-aged African
American and Caucasian men and women who have been participating since
the late 1980s in the large Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.
The key points:
- exercise helps promote health across the races and genders
- there are differences which are significant
- mild to moderate exercise decreased triglycerides only in white people
- increased activity reduced LDL in women but not men
Why so much variation ? No one knows. These are new results which might be contradicted by later research. This particular study used questionnaires which obviously depend upon the honest of participants.
Labels: cholesterol, exercise, healthbenefitsexercise, hearthealthy, lipids
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