30 Minutes of exercise reverse heart damage, Study
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 11-01-2018
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The findings at the end of the study revealed that those who had exercised showed an 18 per cent improvement in their maximum oxygen intake during exercise and a more than 25 per cent improvement in compliance, or elasticity, of the left ventricular muscle of the heart.
A lifestyle without exercise and physical activity can lead to a stiffening of the muscle in the heart's left ventricle, the chamber that pumps oxygen-rich blood back out to the body.
"When the muscle stiffens, you get high pressure and the heart chamber doesn't fill as well with blood. In its most severe form, blood can back up into the lungs. That's when heart failure develops," the researcher explained.