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Ulm (pte039/27.05.2003/15:45) - Just one to two hours of exercise a week could be enough to reduce the risk of heart disease, say German researchers at the University of Ulm and a complete two hours a week can cut the risk in half.
The team under Wolfgang König http://www.uni-ulm.de studied 312 patients with heart disease between the ages of 40 and 68, as well as 479 control subjects. The effects of physical activity were monitored with the help of markers in the subjects' blood.
The results showed that those who exercised less than an hour a week had a 15 per cent lower risk of heart disease than the "couch potatoes" who did nothing at all. Training two hours a week lowered the risk by as much as 40 per cent, and over two hours a week reduced the risk by 61 per cent.
The scientists have published their study in the Archives of Internal Medicine http://archinte.ama-assn.org (Arch Intern Med. 2003;163:1200-1205). The results confirm what doctors have been saying all along: that even minimal amounts of recreational exercise can help protect the heart.
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