Why walking further and faster could cut your risk of heart attack and stroke
Walking faster and faster can reduce the risk of heart attack almost fifth – even if you did not reach the recommended target, a study was found.
Analysis of more than 36,000 people with high blood pressure revealed that walking reduces the risk of major problems in more heart and blood vessels.
The work published here EUROPEAN PREPARATION CARDIOLOGY JOURNAL Compared to the number of 2,300 steps per day, he found that each extra 1,000 steps were attributed to a decrease of 17 percent in the risk of cardiovascular problems.
This was up to 10,000 steps – walking more than this was associated with a lower risk of stroke.
According to the British Heart Foundation, approximately 14.4 million people in the UK are estimated to have high blood pressure of about 14.4 million people.
According to NHS, it increases the risk of heart disease, heart attack, stroke and heart failure.
However, working writers say that people with high blood pressure so far are unclear how much they should increase their physical activities to see a decrease in these risks.
Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis at the University of Sydney, who supervised the study, said, iz If you live with high blood pressure, we have seen how low your risk for serious cardiovascular events in the future.
“These findings support the message that any amount of physical activity is beneficial, even below the extensive daily target of 10,000 steps.”
Researchers analyzed data from 32,192 people with high blood pressure, part of the Biobank study of England – the cohort study of 500,000 people who collect data about diet, lifestyle, biobelirts and health.
As part of the study, these participants agreed to wear an accelerator on their wrists for seven days to measure how and how fast they were walking.
The participants were followed for eight years, and during this time there was a cases of stroke of 1,935 heart problems.
After analyzing this data researchers, there was a 17 percent decrease in total risk for each 1000 steps per day, a 22 percent decrease in heart failure, a 9 percent decrease in the risk of heart attack and a decrease in the risk of stroke.
The researchers also watched how fast the participants walked a day and recorded the fastest 30 minutes in an average of 80 steps per minute, which reduced the risk of a 30 percent heart problem.
However, not only people with high blood pressure. Researchers also found similar results when they looked at 37,350 people without high blood pressure.
Every 1000 steps increased in the number of daily steps, total heart problems (20.2 percent), heart failure (23.2 percent), myocardial infarches (17.9 percent) and stroke (24.6 percent).
Professor Stamatakis said: “Clinicians should encourage physical activity as standard care especially in patients with high blood pressure. Our results can inform new, private public health suggestions for these patients.”
