Get Up And Do Something: Walking 3 hours per week may lower women's stroke risk

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Walking 3 hours per week may lower women's stroke risk Jan 9th 2013, 11:04 Just walking three hours a week may lower a woman's risk to get a stroke by 43 percent, a new study has revealed. Researchers discovered that female subjects who walked 210 minutes or more per week had a significantly lower chance of getting a stroke compared to women who walked less or not at all. "The message for the general population remains similar: regularly engaging in moderate recreational activity is good for your health," lead author Jos? Mar?a Huerta, a researcher at the Murcia Regional Health Authority in Spain, told Reuters Health.

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