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

Friday, May 9, 2014 - 10:31 in Health & Medicine

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. 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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