Exercise and the heart in hypertension

Title: Exercise and the heart in hypertension
Creator: White, Saxon William
Relation: The Heart and Hypertension p. 435 -445
Publisher: Yorke Medical Books
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 1987
Description: Compared to the figures for 1965 to 1967, there has been a 40% decline in mortality due to ischemic heart disease for each sex and for all age groups in Australia and the United States, an event that has focused attention on the mechanisms of the phenomenon. A similar time course of decline in mortality for cerebrovascular disease in these countries has also been noted. Nevertheless, cardiovascular disease remains by far the greatest killer in both countries, and in Australia the mortality rate for cerebrovascular disease is 40% to 55% greater than and the prevalence of hypertension is double that found in the United States. To date, we still do not know whether the declining mortality is due to better patient management or to the subtle effects of changing community behavior. Nevertheless, the question continues to be raised as to whether attacking the "weaker" risk factor of lack of physical activity can in itself modify such risk factors as hypertension and thereby reduce cardiovascular mortality.
Subject: heart disease; cardiovascular mortality; physical activity; hypertension
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/938988
Identifier: uon:12714
Identifier: ISBN:0914316451
Language: eng

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