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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Miriam Stoppard

'Put your fitness to the test with the latest technology, with no need to exercise'

Fitness tests are useful tools for predicting your risk of heart ­attack and diabetes – but they can be complicated.

The most accurate ones have been limited to top athletes working out on treadmills in labs. But now we could all measure how fit and healthy we are from the ­comfort of an armchair.

Cambridge researchers have ­developed a clever method for ­measuring fitness with a wearable device, without the need to exercise.

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