A new study sets in 15,000 the daily steps of physical exercise advisable to prevent coronary heart disease instead of the 10,000 that doctors have recommended in a traditional way.At least that is the figure that its authors have related to the absence of metabolic syndrome in a given population sample (that is, normal variables of blood pressure, sugar and blood lipids) and optimal measures of abdominal perimeter.
The work is published in International Journal of Obesity and part of 111 workers of the Glasgow postal service to which a cardiovascular biological parameters were followed up for seven days in relation to the degree of physical activity, which was presupposed would bevariable even if they shared trade.
The average age of the participants was 40 years;The body mass index (BMI) was 26.9 (equivalent to light overweight) and the average abdominal perimeter was 95.4 centimeters.Also, other variables such as HDL and LDL cholesterol were measured.
In its conclusions, the article finds a relationship between the normal values of cholesterol, lipids and blood glucose and a daily mean greater than 15,000 steps per day of physical activity, as well as more than seven hours remaining standing.
Less activity, more probability of metabolic syndrome
"Compared to participants who did not suffer from metabolic syndrome, those who did have their characteristics were, in the study period, significantly less active (lower number of daily steps, less hours of sleep and more time remaining sitting)," they point outThe authors.
"Consequently," we add - we deduce that staying longer, or making sedentary life, it is importantly associated, with a further risk of coronary heart disease and greater abdominal perimeter ", both associated variables in medicine, in turn, to theMetabolic syndrome