From age 30 onwards, inactivity has greatest impact on women's lifetime heart disease risk

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-05/bmj-fa3050614.php

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 8-May-2014

Contact: Stephanie Burns
BMJ-British Medical Journal
From age 30 onwards, inactivity has greatest impact on women's lifetime heart disease risk

Lack of exercise trumps other known risk factors, including overweight

From the age of 30 onwards, physical inactivity exerts a greater impact on a woman's lifetime risk of developing heart disease than the other well-known risk factors, suggests research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

This includes overweight, the finding show, prompting the researchers to suggest that greater effort needs to be made to promote exercise.

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