{"id":24961,"date":"2019-10-07T09:19:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T22:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24961"},"modified":"2019-10-07T09:19:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T22:19:22","slug":"how-many-push-ups-can-you-do-study-finds-men-who-can-do-40-have-lower-risk-of-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24961","title":{"rendered":"How many push-ups can you do? Study finds men who can do 40 have lower risk of heart disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pushup.jpg\" alt=\"Pushups\" class=\"wp-image-24962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pushup.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pushup-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of push-ups a man can do may be a good indicator of his risk for heart disease, a new study found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study, conducted by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, compared the heart health of male firefighters over a 10-year period. Those who could do more than 40 push-ups during a timed test at a preliminary examination were 96 percent less likely to have developed a cardiovascular problem compared to those who could do no more than 10 push-ups, according to the report published Friday in the medical journal JAMA Network Open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly half of U.S. adults deal with some form of cardiovascular disease as of 2016, according to the American Heart Association.The study&#8217;s authors believe push-ups may be an easy way to test men&#8217;s risk for heart disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2019\/02\/17\/study-men-push-ups-lower-risk-heart-disease\/2899802002\/\">https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2019\/02\/17\/study-men-push-ups-lower-risk-heart-disease\/2899802002\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of push-ups a man can do may be a good indicator of his risk for heart disease, a new study found. The study, conducted by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, compared the heart health of male firefighters over a 10-year period. Those who could do more than 40 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24961\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How many push-ups can you do? Study finds men who can do 40 have lower risk of heart disease&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24963,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24961\/revisions\/24963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}