People with a glucose-tolerance problem -- a driver of diabetes and cardiovascular disease -- can cut the risk of heart attack or stroke by simply walking an additional 2,000 steps per day, a study said on Friday. The experiment gathered more than 9,300 adults in 40 countries with so-called impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) who had also been diagnosed with cardiovascular disease or were considered at risk from it. Volunteers who added 2,000 steps -- around 20 minutes of moderate walking -- to their existing daily schedule reduced the cardiovascular risk by eight percent by the time of the study ended, six years later. "People with IGT have a greatly increased risk of cardiovascular disease", study leader Thomas Yates from the University of Leicester, central England, said in a press release.
via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/2-000-extra-steps-day-cuts-cardiovascular-risk-101104911.html
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