Club run last night - just over 7 miles at a fairly quick pace. Enjoyable.
Today I took part in a survey by UK Biobank. UK Biobank is a major UK medical research initiative with the aim of improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of serious and life-threatening illnesses – including cancer, heart diseases, diabetes, arthritis and forms of dementia. They are recruiting 500,000 people aged 40-69 from across the UK to take part in this project.
Basically I had to answer hundreds of questions about my lifestyle and have measurements taken such as height, weight, body fat %, blood pressure, etc. Then samples of blood and urine were taken for analysis.
This is an ongoing research initiative and I will be asked back at some future point for more of the same - to see how things have changed I suppose.
Of all the tests I undertook I was given the following results:
blood pressure ... 146/85 mmHg
weight ... 57.3 kg [126.3 lb] (clothed)
height ... 1.67 m [5 feet 5.75 inches]
body mass index ... 20.5
waist ... 71 cm [28 inches]
body fat ... 14.1 %
heel bone ultrasound ... 162 dB/MHz
lung function ... FEV1 value ... 2.87 litres
lung function ... FVC value ... 3.60 litres
lung function ... FEV1/FVC ratio ... 80 %
As expected, the lung fuction tests are slightly less than normal because of my medical history (in 1993 I had part of my right lung removed due to cancer). For my age, height, gender and race FEV1 value should be 3.41 to 3.64 litres and FVC value should be 4.50 to 4.80 litres.
I'm happy with this though - I'm alive, running, have a wonderful family and I'm enjoying myself.
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