Scientists says light physical activity can reverse the risk, say scientists.
Couch potato kids are more likely to suffer premature heart damage, warns a new study.
Scientists from the Universities of Bristol and Exeter teamed up with colleagues from the University of Eastern Finland for the study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. The participants spent an average of six hours per day in sedentary activities at the start of the study, increasing to nine hours per day by young adulthood.
But an average of three to four hours per day of light physical activity reduced the increase in heart mass by 49 percent, say scientists.Participating in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity showed signs of slightly increasing the heart size - by five percent - which is largely physiologic, according to the research team.
However, no previous study has ever examined whether long-term light exercise from childhood holds the potential to reverse the increase in cardiac mass. Blood pressure, heart rate and family history of cardiovascular disease, as well as dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry measured fat mass and lean mass were also accounted for.
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