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Study: Exercise ‘as Good as Medicines’ in Treating Heart Disease


A man jogs at Labrador Park in Singapore in this August 29, 2013, file photo.
A man jogs at Labrador Park in Singapore in this August 29, 2013, file photo.
Exercise may be just as good as medication to treat heart disease and should be included as a comparison when new drugs are being developed and tested, scientists said on Wednesday.

In a large review published in the British Medical Journal, researchers from Britain's London School of Economics and Harvard and Stanford universities in the United States found no statistically detectable differences between exercise and drugs for patients with coronary heart disease or prediabetes, when a person shows symptoms that may develop into full-blown diabetes.
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