Sports To Sweating, Stroke Risk Down 20 Percent

Australia, Sultry and sweating. That's the 'side effects' that is felt when a person is determined to exercise during the day or in the summer. But a study revealed that work up a sweat can reduce the risk of stroke by 20 percent.

After observing more than 27,000 participants from the United States aged 45 years on average for 5.7 years, researchers found that people who do not actively exercise 20 percent greater chance of having a stroke or mini stroke than people who exercise with moderate or severe intensity to sweat as much as four times a week.

But it seems this condition was significant only in men. Because among the participants were men, only those who exercise four times a week with intensity or lebihlah who have a lower risk of stroke. While for the female participants, the link between stroke risk with physical activity frequency not so clear.

"The benefits of physical activity can reduce the risk of stroke is apparently due to the impact of those activities on the actual risk factors for stroke," said researcher Dr. Michelle McDonnell, who teaches Health Sciences at the University of South Australia, as reported by the Daily Mail, Friday (19/07/2013).

"Because exercise can lower blood pressure, reduce weight and prevent diabetes. Fact like the sport it is a pill, then you only need to take one pill 4-5 only to treat different health problems," he added.

These findings are similar to results of previous studies that found that physical inactivity is a risk factor of stroke after both high blood pressure.

But researchers warn if they make conclusions based solely on self-report data from the participants about the frequency of their exercise, not how long participants in physical activity a day. Although the participants themselves are divided by the same relative amount of both blacks and whites and men and women, with the majority of participants are from the 'Stroke Belt' in the American southeast.

"We can say how much additional risk for any stroke you that you reduce the consumption of cigarettes or any point decrease in blood pressure that you are experiencing, but we still need more studies to ascertain the amount of exercise a person's risk of stroke alone," added McDonnell

The study has been published in the journal Stroke.