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New Research Underscores Need to Double Exercise for Long-Term Blood Pressure Control
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Recent research sheds new light on how much exercise is truly necessary to effectively prevent high blood pressure, challenging long-standing official recommendations and offering new insights with important implications for the Thai public. A study tracking over 5,000 adults for three decades has found that individuals who consistently completed about five hours of moderate physical activity each week — double the current guidelines — saw a substantial reduction in their risk of hypertension as they aged, especially if these habits were sustained into their later years (ScienceAlert).
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