Want to know your chances of dying in the next 10 years? Take the treadmill test, said cardiologists at Johns Hopkins.

Researchers have come up with an algorithm called the FIT Treadmill Score, which factors in peak heart rate and metabolism.

Cardiologists analyzed at least 58,000 heart stress test to come up with the FIT Treadmill Score, which ranged from negative 200 to positive 200.

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Patients getting more positive scores have lower mortality risks in the next decade while those who scored 0 to 100 had a 3 percent chance of dying in the next 10 years.

For patients scoring 100 to 200, the chance of leaving their loved ones in the next decade was two percent.

The scary stuff though went to those who scored less than 0. Patients who scored between 0 and negative 100 had an 11 percent chance of dying within 10 years while those who scored negative 100 and below had a 38 percent chance of dying.

"The notion that being in good physical shape portends lower death risk is by no means new, but we wanted to quantify that risk precisely by age, gender and fitness level, and do so with an elegantly simple equation," said senior study author Michael Blaha.

Jennifer Lee Ashton, a physician, author and television medical contributor who was not involved in the study, said the treadmill test can actually change one's destiny.

"Look, if this is in your power to change and improve your number, pump up the speed. It's all about getting a high heart rate. You can actually change a bit of your destiny on this," Ashton said.

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