Balance Test Will Tell How Much You Will

 It is very important to be balanced to live a good and long life. Not only mentally, but also physically. According to a recent research conducted in Brazil, if people over the age of 50 are unable to stand on one leg for more than 10 seconds, then their chances of death are doubled within the next 10 years.

Balance test done for 10 years

Through research, scientists wanted to understand whether a short 10-second balance test could detect people dying early. Also, should this test be added to the routine health checkup of patients. For this, 1,700 people were included in the research and their health checkups were done from the year 2009 to 2020. At the time of the first Test, his age was 51 to 75 years, which brought the average age to 61. Of these, 68% were male.

In 10 years of research, 21% of people failed the balance test. Apart from this, the risk of failing the test also increased with age. 54% of people aged 71 to 75 years could not pass this test. At the same time, 5% of those aged 51 to 55, 8% from 56 to 60 years, 18% from 61 to 65 years and 37% of people from 66 to 70 failed the test.

About 17.5% of the people who failed the balance test lost their lives within the next 10 years.

Here are the results

In 10 years of research, scientists found that people who failed the balance test were more likely to die early. About 17.5% of those who failed lost their lives within the next 10 years. At the same time, this figure was 4.6% among those who passed. Scientists also found that those who failed the balance test had diseases like obesity, hypertension, coronary artery disease and dyslipidemia.

Death risk increased by 84%

During the research, the sex, age and medical history of the people who died were taken into account. This led scientists to understand that people who suffer from old age and other diseases and fail the balance test, they have an 84% risk of dying in the next 10 years.

The balance test can be easily performed at home as well.

How is the balance test done?

The balance test can be easily performed at home as well. You stand on any one leg for 10 seconds. Place the raised leg behind the standing leg. Keep both the hands at the side. Look at eye level at a distance of 2 meters during the test. Give yourself three attempts to perform the test