A middle-aged woman's risk of a heart attack is reduced by 51% if she goes up four steps every day
Dec 04, 2024
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A joint research team from the UK, Australia, and Canada used health and medical information from 81,052 adults registered in the UK Biobank between 2013 and 2015. They lived with activity trackers on 24 hours a day for a week.
About 22,000 of the participants said they do not exercise regularly or take a walk once a week.
The rest said they exercise regularly or take a walk more than once a week.
The researchers followed up with hospital and fatality records containing their 'major cardiovascular side effects' until November 2022.
As a result, middle-aged women who exercised an average of 3.4 minutes per day were 45% less likely to suffer from major cardiovascular diseases.
In addition, the probability of heart attack was 51% lower and the probability of heart failure was 67% lower.
Just about a minute and a half of vigorous activity every day reduced the risk of heart failure by a third and the risk of heart failure by 40%. However, in the case of men, the association was lower than that of women.
Men with an average of 5.6 minutes of high-intensity activity each day were found to be 16% less likely to suffer from major cardiovascular diseases than men who did not at all.
In addition, men who performed at least 2.3 minutes of high-intensity activity per day had a risk reduction rate of only 11%.
Lead author Emmanuel Stamatakis, a professor at the University of Sydney, said "Making a habit of intense physical activity for a short period of time can be a good option for women who do not like or cannot do structured exercise."For this purpose, you can achieve effective results with just a few minutes of activities such as climbing stairs, shopping, and walking uphill."
The findings were recently published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
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