“Supporting physical activity at a young age can be especially important for the prevention of hypertension, the researcher said.”, – WRITE: www.unian.ua
Supporting physical activity at a young age can be especially important for the prevention of hypertension, the researcher said.
Young age is an important window for intervention to prevent hypertension at middle age / UNIAN collage, photo ua.depositphotos.comFive hours of moderate physical activity per week in early adulthood significantly reduce the risk of hypertension (high blood pressure), especially if people retain their habits in sports for up to 60 years. This is written by Sciencealert.com with reference to research in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
“If you want to protect yourself from high blood pressure with age, you need to play a long and maintain the level of exercises before the middle age,” the publication reads.
More than 5,100 people in four cities have been involved in the study. Their health has been monitored for three decades through physical assessments and questionnaires about their habits of exercise, smoking and alcohol.
In all directions – among men, women and in different racial groups – the level of physical activity sharply fell from 18 to 40 years, with the indicators of hypertension increased, and physical activity fell in the following decades.
According to the researchers, this suggests that young age is an important window for intervention to prevent hypertension at middle age through health promotion programs aimed at improving physical activity.
“Adolescents and people aged about 20 years can be physically active, but these models change with age … Maintaining physical activity at a young age – at a higher level than recommended earlier – it can be particularly important (for the prevention of hypertension)”, ” -explained the author of the study and epidemiology Kirsten Bibbins-domingo of California University in San Francisco.
Earlier, UNIAN wrote whether the use of coffee on blood pressure.
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