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Just walking 3,600 steps a day significantly reduces your risk.
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It was found that if women over the age of 63 walked an average of 3,600 steps per day at a normal pace, their risk of developing heart failure was 26% lower. [사진=클립아트코리아]A new study suggests that older women need less exercise each day to lower their risk of heart failure than previously thought. Even if you only walk regarding 3,600 steps a day instead of 10,000 steps, your risk of heart failure is significantly reduced. This is what the health and medicine webzine ‘Health Day’ reported on the 26th (local time) based on a paper by American researchers published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA Cardiology).
According to the paper, if women over the age of 63 walked an average of 3,600 steps per day at a normal pace, their risk of developing heart failure was lowered by 26%. Michael Lamonte, research professor (epidemiology and environmental health) at the Graduate School of Public Health and Public Health at the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo), lead author of the paper, said, “Accumulating 3,000 steps a day is the amount of activity women perform per day in this study. “It can be a reasonable goal consistent with .”
The researchers had 5,951 American women aged 63 to 99 wear a motion tracker and checked the number of steps they took every day. They walked an average of nearly 3,600 steps per day and developed more than 400 cases of heart failure during an average follow-up period of 7.5 years.
The risk of developing heart failure was found to be 12% lower for every 70 minutes per day spent on light-intensity exercise and 16% lower for every 30 minutes per day spent on moderate-to-vigorous intensity activity. In comparison, the risk of experiencing heart failure increased by 17% for every hour and 30 minutes spent sitting.
Light physical activity included daily activities such as housework and care. Moderate or more strenuous activities included walking at a normal pace, climbing stairs, and yard work.
The study also looked specifically at heart failure with normal rhythm (HFpEF), which occurs when the heart muscle becomes too thick and stiff to hold less blood in the lower atria. Heart failure occurs when the heart beats normally but cannot pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs.
“Normal-rhythm heart failure is the most common form of heart failure seen in older adults, women, and racial and ethnic minority groups, and because there are currently few established treatments, primary prevention of normal-rhythm heart failure is even more important,” said Professor Lamonte. “He explained.
The researchers found that light and moderate physical activity reduced the risk of normal-rhythm heart failure in much the same way as heart failure overall. Additionally, prolonged sitting increased the risk of normal rhythm heart failure.
The risk of heart failure, including normal rhythm heart failure, was significantly lowered by taking regarding 2,500 steps per day. When you walk 3,600 steps, the risk decreases by 25 to 30 percent.
The researchers emphasized that women do not need to exert excessive effort to benefit from exercise. Professor Lamonte explained, “We found that walking intensity did not have an effect on lowering the risk of heart failure,” adding, “Similar results were obtained between lighter and more powerful steps.”
The paper can be found at the following link:
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