A new formula has been developed to accurately calculate the peak heart rate a healthy woman should attain while she is exercising in her ladies gym wear.

The formula - 206 minus 88 per cent of age - was the result of a large study from Northwestern Medicine.

It is believed this will also more accurately predict the risk of heart-related death during stress tests conducted on patients by physicians.

"Now we know for the first time what is normal for women, and it's a lower peak heart rate than for men," said Dr Martha Gulati, assistant professor of medicine and preventive medicine and a cardiologist at Northwestern Medicine.

She went on to say that, using the standard formula, it was more likely that women would be told they had a worse prognosis than they actually did.

According to the NHS, an adult's normal resting heart rate is between 60 and 100 beats a minute but, using the new formula, this could now be different.

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