#StepCount

Landmark international research demonstrates that increased daily walking, particularly at faster paces, dramatically reduces major cardiovascular events in people with high blood pressure, offering concrete guidance and renewed hope for millions of Thai citizens living with hypertension. The comprehensive study, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, analyzed over thirty-six thousand people with high blood pressure and concluded that every additional one thousand daily steps led to seventeen percent lower risk of serious cardiovascular events including heart attacks and strokes, even among participants who did not achieve the widely recommended ten thousand daily steps.

A landmark new study has found that walking more steps and at a brisker pace dramatically reduces the risk of major heart and vascular problems in people with high blood pressure, offering hope—and clear targets—for millions of Thais living with hypertension. The international research, published this week in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, analyzed over 36,000 people with high blood pressure and concluded that every additional 1,000 steps taken per day led to a 17% lower risk of suffering a serious cardiovascular event, such as heart attack or stroke, even for those who fell short of the widely touted 10,000 daily steps metric (Medical Xpress).