Scientists followed the women for an average of 7.5 years. During this time, there were 407 cases of heart failure.
"I encourage patients in this age group to exercise as much as they can," Vallakati told Medical News Today . "If all women in this age group walked 2,500 steps a day, it could reduce the risk of heart failure by 25%."
"As a medical community, we should be encouraging people to become and stay active," he added. "The more people get moving the better their health will be. People often believe that they have to exercise strenuously to make a dent in their cardiovascular risk. The truth is that anything is better than nothing, building habits are better than isolated activity, and sedentary behavior leads to worse health outcomes."
"I encourage people to focus less on the number of steps that they take and more on building habits around healthy daily activity," Amin noted. "If counting steps helps motivate someone to build those habits, I am all for it."
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