Walking just 14 steps a minute faster could help older people improve their endurance

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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.

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Organisation/s: University of Chicago, USA

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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