A 10-year study in Japan has found that older adults who rode bicycles had lower risks of needing long-term care and dying – particularly those who did not otherwise drive. A group of researchers from the University in Tsukuba in Japan analysed cycling habits among a group of several thousand older adults (mean age 74.2 years) across a 10-year period. First, they looked at how often participants rode bicycles in 2013 and tracked whether they…
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