Weekend warrior way of life helpful in individuals with hypertension

Key takeaways:

• The weekend warrior way of life improved mortality vs. inactive way of life in individuals with hypertension.
• Weekend warriors achieved 150 minutes or extra of bodily exercise per week in simply 1 or 2 days.

People with hypertension who meet guideline-directed ranges of weekly bodily exercise in simply 1 or 2 days could derive related mortality profit vs. those that are constantly lively, researchers reported.

The 2020 WHO tips on bodily exercise and sedentary conduct, printed within the British Journal of Sports Medicine, really helpful 150 minutes or extra of reasonable to vigorous bodily exercise per week for individuals with continual situations corresponding to hypertension.

For the current research, researchers used information from the UK Biobank to find out whether or not completely different patterns of bodily exercise would affect stroke and mortality outcomes amongst individuals with excessive BP. The outcomes had been printed in Hypertension.

“Using objective accelerometer data, this study demonstrates that both weekend warrior and regular moderate to vigorous physical activity patterns meeting guideline recommendations confer mortality benefits in patients with hypertension,” Ronghui Zhu, PhD, of the division of navy well being statistics, Naval Medical University in Shanghai, and colleagues wrote. “Notably, these protective effects extend to active patterns below guideline-recommended thresholds and remain consistent across diverse subgroups, including different age groups, sex, body mass index categories, blood pressure control status and antihypertensive medication use.”

The research included 52,838 individuals with accelerometer information after a prognosis of hypertension (median age, 67 years; 51% males).

Participants had been categorized into one among three teams: weekend warrior, lively and inactive.

The weekend warrior bodily exercise sample was outlined as 150 minutes or extra per week of reasonable to vigorous bodily exercise with greater than half of exercise completed over 1 to 2 days. Active people met the WHO standards for weekly bodily exercise. Inactive contributors did lower than the minimal ranges of guideline-directed bodily exercise.

Overall, 41.43% of contributors had been within the weekend warrior group, 20.09% had been within the lively group and 38.48% had been within the inactive group.

During a median follow-up of seven.5 years, researchers reported that weekend warriors (HR = 0.7; 95% CI, 0.64-0.77; P < .0001) and lively contributors (HR = 0.73; 95% CI, 0.65-0.82; P < .0001) skilled decrease threat for all-cause mortality in contrast with these within the inactive group.

Both weekend warriors and individuals who had been lively had numerically decrease stroke mortality in contrast with the inactive group, in line with the research.

“Individuals with hypertension can achieve significant mortality benefits through flexible physical activity patterns, whether distributing exercise throughout the week or concentrating moderate to vigorous physical activity into 1 or 2 days,” the researchers wrote. “This evidence supports individualized exercise prescription strategies that accommodate diverse lifestyle constraints, with the potential to enhance adherence and yield population-level reductions in mortality risk.”