People with high blood pressure can protect their hearts and vessels while walking.
Walking is excellent for health, this is no longer to be demonstrated. This is true for the whole organism, and especially for the cardiovascular system. A British medical study published in early August in early August and conducted with 36,192 elderly people on average by 64 years shows that walking more in everyday life significantly reduces the risk of major cardiovascular accidents such as infarction and stroke. Especially when you have high blood pressure.
Participants wore a wrist sensor for 7 consecutive days, registering both the total number of steps and their maximum cadence over 30 minutes. The researchers then followed their state of health for 8 years. To their surprise, they observed that a sustained pace of walking reinforced the cardiovascular profits. Whether it’s hypertensive or not, those who walk faster reduce their risk of stroke and heart failure.
On the side of the number of steps, the data is clear: each increase of 1000 steps per day on a reference basis of 2340 is associated with an average reduction of 17% of the risk of major cardiovascular events, including infarction, heart failure and stroke. In more detail, the risk of heart failure has dropped by 22%, that of 24.5%stroke, and that of myocardial infarction by 9%. “Compared to a daily number of steps of 2,300, carrying out more than 3,000 steps a day and walking regularly with a higher rate was associated with a lower risk of major heart events in people with high blood pressure” said scientists.
In practice, the authors observed clear profits up to a ceiling of around 10,000 steps a day, especially when they are made at a good speed. Thus, in hypertensive people, gradually switch from a low level of walking to a higher and faster volume can protect from stroke, with only 1000 steps per day. In France, 17 million adults suffer from hypertension, or 1 in 3 and 6 million ignore it. High blood pressure is one of the first modifiable risk factors for stroke.
