For the study, “Walking for Heart Health: A Study of Adult Women in Rural New York”, researchers analysed data from a group of 70 women. Subsequently, a web-based risk assessment tool was used to determine their risk of a heart attack within the next 10 years. After five weeks, the participants were invited to attend a talk about heart health and to have their pedometer data downloaded. The researchers reviewed the activity data with them and discussed increasing their aerobic steps. The results of their post-test confirmed the researchers’ initial hypothesis that walking would improve cardiovascular risk factors in the short term.

Source: Daily Nation November 26, 2016 19:17 UTC