/PRNewswire/ Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: ORMP) (TASE: ORMP) (www.oramed.com), announced today that it has been selected to present an oral abstract.
The study participants agreed to a 30-year follow-up, which began in 1996.
The study represents one of the longest longitudinal evaluations of a group s response to exercise and provides novel findings regarding the effects of endurance training separated by a 30-year period.
The initial study evaluated the response to endurance exercise training after a 20-day period of bed rest.
How to live longer: Endurance exercise is the best way to improve cardiovascular function (Image: Getty Images)
Testing the men before and after exercise, the researchers found devastating changes that included faster resting heart rates, higher systolic blood pressures, a drop in the heart s maximum pumping capacity, a rise in body fat, and a fall in muscle strength.