Regular walking can reduce the risk of stroke among women by up to 37%, it has been found.
Women who walk at speeds of 3mph or more, or walk for two or more hours a week, have a lower stroke risk compared with those who do not, research by a team of health experts revealed.
Brisk walking can cut down risk of all kinds of stroke – including clot-related (ischaemic) stroke and bleeding (haemorrhagic) stroke – by 37% while two or more hours of walking a week reduces it by 30%, the study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAMA) said.
Analysed separately, brisk walking was found to lower the risk of haemorrhagic stroke by 68% while two or more hours of weekly walking could reduce it by 57%.
In the case of ischaemic stroke, the risk was lowered by 35% with brisk walking and by 21% with two or more hours of walking.
More than 39,000 women with an average age of 54 participated in the study, for which they recorded their levels of exercise every two to three years.
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