When Exercising Causes Heart Attack And Stroke

Diet and exercise are the two things you have always been told to do to prevent strokes and heart attacks, along with lowering blood pressure and cholesterol.

Slow down! According to a new study published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, exercising can increase your risk of dying from a heart attack by 160% if done the wrong way.

In this study, the researchers followed 2,377 people who had a cardiac event in the preceding ten years to explore the effects of different exercise patterns on the risk of death from another cardiac event.

Here is what they found:

• Those who did the metabolic equivalent of running 1.07 to 1.8 km every day reduced their risk of cardiac death by 21%.

• Those who did the equivalent of running 1.8 to 3.6 km every day reduced their risk of cardiac death by 24%.

• Those who did the equivalent of running 3.6 to 5.4 km every day reduced their risk of cardiac death by 50%.

• Those who did the equivalent of running 5.4 to 7.2 km every day reduced their risk of cardiac death by 63%.

• However, those who did the equivalent of running more than 7.2 km every day INCREASED their risk of cardiac death by 160%.

So, while more exercise is better than a small amount of it, there is a point at which too much exercise becomes a heart risk.

The subjects of this study were people who had previous cardiac events. However, the findings seem to apply to healthy individuals as well.

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