Women who walks had a lower risk of stroke

Women who walks had a lower
risk of stroke One of the causes
of stroke is built-up plaque in
arteries or ruptured
blood vessels in the brain.
Recent research shows that
women who walk for at least
three hours
every week suffer less stroke
than women who walk less.
During the study, women who
walked briskly for 210 minutes
or more per
week had a lower risk of stroke
than women who are inactive.
These 210 minutes or more
briskly walker also had lower
stroke than
those who cycled or engage in
intensive exercise for a shorter
time.
The study was carried out
through a questionnaire nearly
33000 men and
women make up the participants
whom are categorized into
gender,
exercise type and total time
spent for exercising per week.
The participants are given a
physical activity questionnaire
given
once in the mid-1990s as part of
a larger European cancer project.
The follow-up period, covered a
12 year span during which a
total of
442 strokes were recorded
among the participants.
For the women, 43% reduction
in stroke occurred in women
who walked
regularly compared to the
inactive group.
However, no reduction was seen
for men based on exercise type
or frequency.
Accordingly, WHO and U.S centers
for Disease and Control and
Prevention recommend at least
150 minutes-or-two-and-a-half
hours-of
moderate exercise such as brisk
walking each week.
WHO predicted that stroke cases
will continue to increase as the
global population continues to
grow older.
Though, Dr.Wilson Cueva of the
university of Chicago in Illinois do
not know how seriously the
result of the study should be
taken, he
urged health consumers to
follow those guidelines for now.
" I wouldn't make much of the
results because they are for a
very
specific population. There is no
objective way to measure how
much
exercise they actually did. The
way the Spanish study was
Designed, it's difficult to draw
any conclusions, but we know
that
exercise is related to reduced
risk of stroke and other diseases.
About 795000 people suffer a
stroke each year in the US. What
this is
saying is that one American has a
stroke every 40 seconds and dies
from one every four minutes.
This shows how rampant and
deadly a stroke is. However,
recent study
shows that exercise work on the
body of women to prevent
stroke than
it does in men.