Sydney: Exercising for five minutes per day could reduce blood pressure, a new research has found. The research, which was published by experts from an international academic collaboration led by the University of Sydney and University College London, suggested that doing five minutes of physical activity, such as walking uphill or stair climbing every day, may help to lower blood pressure.
According to Namibia Press Agency, the study by the Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep (ProPASS) Consortium found that replacing sedentary behavior with 20-27 minutes of exercise per day can result in a clinically meaningful reduction in blood pressure. “High blood pressure is one of the biggest health issues globally, but unlike some major causes of cardiovascular mortality there may be relatively accessible ways to tackle the problem in addition to medication,” Emmanuel Stamatakis, joint senior author and director of the ProPASS Consortium from the University of Sydney, said.
The research emphasized that
even as little as five extra minutes of exercise per day could be associated with measurably lower blood pressure readings, highlighting the impact of short bouts of higher intensity movement for blood pressure management. The research team analyzed data from 14,761 volunteers to explore the associations between replacing one type of movement with another and blood pressure.
The team estimated that replacing sedentary behavior with at least 20 minutes of exercise daily could reduce cardiovascular disease incidence by 28 percent. The World Health Organization has estimated that 1.28 billion adults aged 30-79 years worldwide have hypertension, with 46 percent of those adults unaware of their condition.
