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Women Need About Half as Much Exercise as Men for the Same Heart Benefits, Study Suggests

When it comes to heart health, any exercise is good. But a new study, published Monday in Nature Cardiovascular Research, ...

Exercise May Benefit Women’s Hearts More Than Men’s

Further analysis showed that women were able to lower their heart risk with smaller amounts of exercise than men were. To ...

Study finds women get more benefits from exercise than men

With the same amount of exercise, women experience a three-fold reduction in their risk of death from heart disease compared ...

Women reach heart health goals with less exercise than men, new study suggests

“Physiologically, circulating estrogen levels are much higher in females than in males, and estrogen can promote body fat ...

Men Need Twice as Much Exercise as Women to Lower Heart Disease Risk, Study Finds

Men may need to exercise twice as much as women to achieve the same reduction in coronary heart disease (CHD) risk, according ...

Men may need to work twice as hard as women to prevent potentially deadly disease

New research reveals that men need twice as much exercise as women to prevent heart disease. The study shows that women ...

Men need to work twice as hard as women for this important health benefit

New research suggests that men may need to exercise twice as much as women to lower their chances of developing a major health threat that kills them more often.