Physical Activity Beneficial for Heart Attack Patients

Physical activity is recommended for patient’s who survived a heart attack. Walking and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity can be beneficial for patients.

Physical activity is recommended in patient’s surviving a heart attack. Relationship between habitual physical activity, its intensity and changes in relation to risk of dying are examined in a new study. //

Physical activity has always been associated with favorable health outcomes including lower risk of chronic diseases and better quality of life.

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‘Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and walking is beneficial for hearth attack patients. It is associated with longer survival in heart attack patients.’
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Knowledge about the benefits of habitual physical activity after people get their first heart attack is very limited.

In this study, researchers followed 1,651 men who survived a heart attack and investigated the relationship between physical activity and changes in relation to risk of dying.

The researchers found that higher levels of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity prior to heart attack was associated with longer survival as compared to a lower level of physical activity.

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Men who maintained their high physical activity from before to after their heart attack also survived longer than those who maintained a sedentary lifestyle.

Patient’s who had a low physical activity before their heart attack but increased, and maintained a long-term increase, after the heart attack also had a longer survival rate.

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Walking for at least two-and-a-half hours per week after a heart attack also had a survival benefit. The results were independent of walking pace or other types of physical activity.

Thus, patients surviving a heart attack are encouraged to be active after their heart attack, after consulting their health care providers.

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Source-Medindia