Health Gains of Exercise Greater in Women?

Women may gain greater health benefits from regular physical activity than do men at equivalent or lower doses of activity, suggest data from more than 400,000 US adults.

"Women have historically and statistically lagged behind men in engaging in meaningful exercise," co–lead author Martha Gulati, MD, with the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, said. "The beauty of this study is learning that women can get more out of each minute of moderate to vigorous activity than men do. It's an incentivizing notion that we hope women will take to heart.

"Importantly, the greater magnitude of physical activity-related survival benefit in women than men was consistently found across varied measures and types of physical activity including frequency, duration per session, and intensity of aerobic physical activity, as well as frequency of muscle strengthening activities," they wrote.

"We hope this study will help everyone, especially women, understand they are poised to gain tremendous benefits from exercise," senior author Susan Cheng, MD, with the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, said in a statement., Wael Jaber, MD, and Erika Hutt, MD, from Cleveland Clinic Ohio, wrote that this analysis "brings us one step farther in gaining insights into the role and influence of physiological responses to exercise with a sex-specific lens.

The study was supported in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health. The authors and editorial writers have declared no relevant conflicts of interest.Fast Five Quiz: Advanced/Metastatic Breast Cancer Imaging

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