After a heart attack should take exercise to 30 minutes a day

The benefits of physical activity after infarction is well known, but they should be moderate. Experts have determined that their duration should not exceed 30 minutes per day.

sport after a heart attack

Intensely involved in sports more than an hour a day infarct victim, they may cause his body more harm than good, according to experts from the US Mayo Clinic. Out No doubt, physical exercise such patients are useful. However, research has shown that the special intense stress increases the risk of reinfarction.

Currently, in many countries, doctors recommend such patients to half an hour a day, but a little where it is said that there is a maximum level of training for people after a heart attack . Therefore, many people wishing to quickly recover and "strengthen the heart", carried out in the gym or running in the streets for an hour or more. Thus, they are still sore Heart gets a load such that it can not survive.

American scientists have found that mortality reinfarction stroke and 65% lower in a group of people who run less than 50 km week or are walking less than 75 km, compared with those who lead a sedentary Lifestyle. Thus, the benefits of physical loads after heart attacks   and strokes there. But if the increase duration and intensity of exercise, the risk of dying from reinfarction   or stroke doubled.

Results of the study published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Scientists for 10 years We are watching a group of 2400 physically active patients, survivors heart attacks. (READ MORE)

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