How much exercise do you need to gain good health and a longer life? PAI was presented at the heart congress ESC

“Confused about how much exercise to take for a healthy heart? Norwegian researchers have come up with a useful app that allows you to personalise the amount of exercise needed to reduce your risk of death from heart attack and stroke”, The Irish Times writes about our reserach that lies behind the app PAI (Personal activity intelligence).

This weekend our senior researcher Javaid Nauman was invited to speak about this reserch in front of other researchers and the press at the large congress for heart research, ESC in Rome.

“Individuals do not know how much exercise they need to prevent cardiovascular disease”, Nauman said during the session.

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“People may be insufficiently active because they do not have personalised, meaningful information about how much physical activity they require, and at what intensity,” said Dr Nauman.

PAI translates heart rate data from any physical activity (i.e. walking, swimming, dancing, cycling) and personal information (age, gender, resting and maximum heart rate) into one simple score. “The goal is to keep your PAI score above 100 over a seven-day rolling window to protect yourself from premature death related to heart disease,” said Dr Nauman.

Wall Street Journal made an article and a video explaining PAI earlier this year:

Stop Counting 10,000 Steps; Check Your Personal Activity Intelligence

A large number of other Newspapers and websites for research and health have written about PAI after Naumans lecture. Her’s a few of them:

Et lite utvalg av medier som har omtalt studien:

• The Irish Times
• Medscape
• Science Magazine
• The Irish Sun
• Dagens Medicin i Danmark
• Hindustan Times
• News Pakistan