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An easy way to check your heart

08.06.2010

Japanese doctors offer a simple test to check the condition of the cardiovascular system.

Sit on the floor with your legs extended and try to reach your toes. Experiments conducted on 526 volunteers aged 20 to 83 showed that the loss of body flexibility is accompanied by a loss of flexibility of the arteries, and this threatens with high blood pressure and possibly heart trouble.

The biological nature of this connection is not entirely clear, but the author of the study, Professor Kenta Yamamoto, emphasizes that the muscles and ligaments responsible for the flexibility of the body are made of the same materials as the walls of blood vessels. There is some experimental evidence that exercising flexibility can improve the condition of the arteries. But this study was not large enough and still needs to be confirmed.

However, American sports medicine specialist Thomas Anthony does not recommend this test for older people.

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