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Moderate workout can lower heart disease risk in women

Moderate workout can lower heart disease risk in women

Moderate workout can lower heart disease risk in womenSpending two and a half hours a week doing light physical activity, like brisk walking, can lower the risk of coronary heart disease by 25 per cent in women under age 50, according to new research.For the study, published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation, the researchers took women aged between 27-44 and found that women with the highest level of light physical activity were at a 25 per cent lower risk incidence of coronary heart disease."Our reason for carrying out this study was primarily to focus on younger women.We wanted to identify steps that young women could take to lower their incidence of coronary heart disease," said Andrea Chomistek, Assistant Professor, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington.


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Apollo astronauts dying of heart disease at 4-5X the rate of counterparts

Apollo astronauts dying of heart disease at 4-5X the rate of counterparts

Deep-space travel takes a toll on the body—and it's apparently something you can't moon-walk off.Apollo astronauts who have ventured out of the protective magnetosphere of mother Earth appear to be dying of cardiovascular disease at a far higher rate than their counterparts—both those that have stayed grounded and those that only flew in the shielding embrace of low-Earth orbit.Though the data is slim—based on only 77 astronauts total—researchers speculate that potent ionizing radiation in deep space may be to blame.That hypothesis was backed up in follow-up mouse studies that provided evidence that similar radiation exposure led to long-lasting damage to the rodents' blood vessels.


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Exercise lowers heart disease risk, even for younger women

Exercise lowers heart disease risk, even for younger women

For women under age 50, spending two and half hours of leisure time each week being active could cut heart disease risk by 25 percent, according to a U.S. study.While that's been shown before for middle aged and older adults, less was known about whether exercise would make a measurable difference for younger women, the authors wrote in a July 26 online paper in Circulation."However, it is worth emphasizing that it doesn't matter if the exercise is moderate or vigorous, if you do it 6 days per week or 3 .every little bit counts," lead author Andrea Chomistek at the Indiana University School of Public Health in Bloomington told Reuters Health by email.