Walking briskly every day can significantly prevent heart disease.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – Coronary heart disease is responsible for the deaths of 64,000 Brits every year. Scientists are learning more and more about how to prevent it.
So far, aerobic exercise like walking has been shown to help prevent heart disease. New research shows that adding some speed to walking is also beneficial.
The study published Thursday (10/27/2022) in European Journal of the Heart find it doing it lively every day can help prevent heart disease significantly. Researchers from the Leicester Biomedical Research Center and the University of Cambridge analyzed health data from over 80,000 Britons to uncover trends in exercise and cardiovascular disease.
Researchers see that the level of cardiovascular disease 14% less in people whose exercise consisted of 20% moderate to vigorous exercise. This is compared to those who only get 10 percent moderate to vigorous exercise.
“This is equivalent to turning a 14-minute walk a day into a seven-minute brisk walk,” said the researchers. To expressTuesday (1/11/2022).
The researchers also found that heart disease rates did not change as the overall amount of physical activity increased, but the proportion of moderate to vigorous exercise remained the same. Cardiovascular disease is a broad term describing conditions that affect heart and blood health, including coronary heart disease and stroke.
John Hopkins Medicine explains that exercise provides numerous physical benefits for the heart, including lowering blood pressure. Exercise works like medicine beta blocker to slow heart rate and lower blood pressure (at rest as well as during exercise).
“Hypertension is a major risk factor for heart disease,” says Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Previous research has also found that exercise can reduce bad cholesterol (LDL) levels by increasing good cholesterol (HDL) levels. High levels of LDL cholesterol can cause atherosclerosis, which is the accumulation of fatty substances in the walls of blood vessels. Atherosclerosis prevents blood from reaching the heart, a sign of heart disease, as well as other organs such as the brain in the event of a stroke.
