A new study has found that exercising for five minutes a day can lower blood pressure.
Research published on Thursday by experts from an international academic collaboration led by the University of Sydney and University College London suggests that five minutes of physical activity, such as walking upstairs or climbing the stairs every day, can lower blood pressure. can help to .
According to a study by the Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep (PROPAS) Consortium, changing sedentary behavior with 20-27 minutes of exercise per day can lead to clinically meaningful reductions in blood pressure.
“High blood pressure is one of the biggest health problems globally, but unlike some of the leading causes of cardiovascular mortality, there may be relatively accessible ways to deal with the problem other than medication,” said Emmanuel Stamtakis, joint senior author and Directors of Propass Consortium. Sydney University said.
“The finding that getting as little as five extra minutes of exercise per day can be associated with lower blood pressure readings, emphasizes how powerful short bouts of high-intensity movement can be for blood pressure management. are.”
The research team analyzed data from 14,761 volunteers to see how alternating one type of movement with another was associated with blood pressure.
The team estimated that changing sedentary behavior with at least 20 minutes of exercise daily could reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease by 28 percent.
The World Health Organization estimates that 1.28 billion adults aged 30–79 worldwide have hypertension, persistently high blood pressure, and 46 percent of adults with hypertension are unaware that they have the condition.
