Researcher Dr. Maria Chiu said that we need to walk instead of driving this more convenient way, because the walk can help improve the body's health, but this study or may prompt people to exercise in a positive way to effectively reduce the daily life blood pressure, help improve the body's health. (Bolise Co., Ltd www.acridine-raw-material.com/)
Moving to a walking neighborhood is good for your blood pressure
People who moved from a neighborhood that required a vehicle to run
errands to one that made walking-errands convenient were significantly
less likely to have high blood pressure than people who moved from one
low-walkability neighborhood to another low-walkability neighborhood,
according to research presented at the American Heart Association's
Scientific Sessions 2015.
To determine a neighborhood's walking friendliness, researchers used
Walk Score, which rates neighborhoods from 1 to 100 for accessibility by
foot to stores, parks, schools and other destinations. "Walker's
Paradise" neighborhoods received a score of 90 or greater. Walk Score is
an open-access walkability index available at http://www.walkscore.com.
This is the first study to determine whether moving to a
walking-friendly neighborhood affected blood pressure. Researchers
compared 1,057 pairs of adults from the Canadian Community Health Survey
(2001 to 2010), who moved from a low walkability neighborhood to either
a high walkability or another low walkability neighborhood in Ontario,
Canada. Blood-pressure data was obtained from linked health
administrative databases held and analyzed at the Institute for Clinical
Evaluative Sciences and patients were monitored for up to 10 years.
Researchers found that people who moved to a walking-friendly
neighborhood had a 54 percent lower risk of high blood pressure than
people who left one walking-unfriendly neighborhood for another.
High blood pressure is one of the main risk factors for heart
disease—the leading cause of death in the United States—and for stroke,
which is the fifth-leading cause of death. Studies show that an active
lifestyle can help reduce the risk of all three of these diseases. For
most healthy adults, the American Heart Association recommends at least
150 minutes of moderate exercise, like walking, or 75 minutes of
vigorous activity (or a combination of both) each week as part of a
heart-healthy lifestyle called My Life CheckTM- Life's Simple 7.
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