Close This Computer Now And At Least Take A Walk!

 

Why?

Cardiologists from Johns Hopkins have published an analysis of exercise data that strongly links a patient's performance on a treadmill to their risk of dying. 

Using data from stress tests of over 58,000 people, they report: "[A]mong people of the same age and gender, fitness level as measured by METs and peak heart rate reached during exercise were the greatest indicators of death risk.

 Fitness level was the single most powerful predictor of death and survival, even after researchers accounted for other important variables such as diabetes and family history of premature death — a finding that underscores the profound importance of heart and lung fitness, the investigators say." 

The scoring system is from -200 to +200. People scoring between -100 and 0 face an 11% risk of dying in the next decade.

 People scoring between -200 and -100 face a 38% risk of death within the next decade.

 People scoring above zero face only a 3% chance or less.