'I'm a Cardiologist, and This Is What Walking Up 4 Flights o

‘I’m a Cardiologist, and This Is What Walking Up 4 Flights of Stairs Can Tell You About Your Heart Health’
Zoe Weiner
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One of the first questions that Arnold Meshkov, MD, a board-certified cardiologist based in Philadelphia, asks his patients is, "Can you walk up a flight of stairs?" Cardiologists, like Dr. Meshkov, have been using "step tests" to evaluate their patients' heart health since the 1940s, thanks in large part to the fact that walking up stairs puts a measurable amount of demand on your heart. And now, according to a new study, there's a way you can conduct this type of heart-health test at home with nothing more than a minute of free time and a few flights of stairs.

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