Adding 5 minutes of exercise daily may help lower blood pressure

• Keeping blood pressure in a healthy range helps improve cardiovascular health and decreases the risk of death from certain causes like heart attack.
• A recent study found that increasing exercise-like activity, such as running or cycling, by as little as five minutes a day may help lower systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
• The results further support that longer increases in exercise-like activity could lead to clinically meaningful drops in blood pressure.

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