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Older Women Who Walk Daily Reduce Risk of High Blood Pressure
Research affirms walking could be primary way to prevent blood pressure issues in adults
Women who walk 30 minutes a day may have a significantly lower risk of developing high blood pressure, new research shows.
Further, women who don’t walk 30 minutes the federal physical activity guideline of moderate activity but do walk at 2 mph (a 30-minute mile) or faster, still have a reduced risk of hypertension, according to the study in the journal Hypertension.
Another study of more than 80,000 postmenopausal women aged 50 to 79 in Circulation: Heart Failure reports that more time spent in sedentary behavior while awake, such as sitting or lying on the couch, is associated with a higher risk of hospitalization for heart failure.
Democratizing DNA-based health risk scores
Hutch-led consortium receives $9.8M grant to improve genetic risk prediction for cardiovascular disease in racially and ethnically diverse populations December 10, 2020 • By Diane Mapes / Fred Hutch News Service Photo illustration by Getty Images
For more than a decade, scientists with the PAGE consortium (Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology) have been focused on developing polygenic risk scores those statistical estimates of a person’s risk for disease based on their genes that will accurately predict risk in all major racial and ethnic groups in the U.S.
This is crucial since the Human Genome Project and a lot of the of genetic research done since has focused almost exclusively on people of European ancestry. As a result, polygenic risk scores designed to help clinicians and the general population gauge their susceptibility to various diseases aren’t
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