Walking just 14 steps a minute faster could help older people improve their endurance
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Experimental study: At least one thing in the experiment was changed to see if it had an impact on the subjects (often people or animals) – eg: changing the amount of time mice spend on an exercise wheel to find out what impact it has on weight loss.
People: This is a study based on research using people.
Walking just 14 steps a minute faster could help older people improve their walking endurance and aerobic capacity, according to US research. The small study of around 100 people living in a retirement community found that those who increased their number of walking steps per minute also had around a 10% increase in their chances of having an improvement in functional capacity.
Funder: This research is supported by the
National Institues of Health, National Institue
on Aging with awards (www.nia.nih.gov) with
award MD (R01AG060162) awarded to MD and
(R03AG078957) awarded to DSR.
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