Leisure Time Physical Activity Linked with Reduced Risk of Hypertension

According to pooled results from 13 studies on the effects of physical activity on blood pressure, people who exercised more than 4 hours per week in their leisure time had a 19% lower risk of hypertension than those who exercised less than 1 hour per week. People who had 1 to 3 hours per week of leisure exercise had an 11% lower risk than those with under an hour of activity. The Hypertension analysis involved 136,846 people in the United States, Europe, and East Asia who initially had healthy blood pressure and were followed from 2 to 45 years.