“If you are physically active, it’s good,” but “you have to be good in all the components” when it comes to longevity, he told AARP. “Sometimes people run a good marathon time, but they are unable to lace their shoes.”
‘Powerful predictor’
“It does seem to be actually a better predictor of longevity than just the sit-to-stand,” she told AARP. “If you can get off the floor, that’s more challenging. Now you’re testing more things. In an ideal world, we would be doing this on every patient at least once a year, to see where they’re at.”
Dr. Karl B. Fields, a sports medicine physician at Cone Health in Greensboro, North Carolina, praised the study’s design and conclusions. “It’s an impressive study. If you can do it, boy, it’s a powerful predictor,” he said.
