The findings show that women who regularly jogged lived 5.6 years longer than women who didn't, and men who jogged lived 6.2 years longer than those who didn't. Jogging for one to 2.5 hours per week at a slow or average pace seemed to deliver the greatest benefit, said study researcher Peter Schnohr, chief cardiologist of the Copenhagen City Heart Study.
Further, the researchers found that people who jogged less than one hour, and those more than 2.5 hours a week were more likely to die over the course of the study than those who jogged for between one and 2.5 hours.
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