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Here’s a quick and easy health check for you: time yourself taking the stairs. A new Spanish study has found that climbing four flights of stairs (about 60 steps) in less than a minute is a good indicator of heart health. If it takes you longer than 90 seconds, you should talk with your doc, the researchers added. They came to the conclusion after putting 165 heart patients through exercise capacity testing in the lab, and then compared how they fared doing a simple stair climb. Those who took longer on the steps were also more likely to record lower exercise capacity scores and abnormal heart function in their lab test.