Walking far and often may be the best exercise prescription for overweight adults with heart disease, a study published Monday suggests.

In a clinical trial of 74 overweight heart disease patients, researchers found that a calorie-burning regimen of longer-distance, moderately paced walking improved patients' risk factors to a greater degree than shorter, more-intense bouts of exercise.

After five months, patients in the former group had lost twice as much weight and body fat. They also showed greater improvements in cholesterol, blood pressure and other risk factors for heart attack and stroke.

Dr. Philip A. Ades and his colleagues at the University of Vermont in Burlington report the findings in the American Heart Association journal Circulation.

Exercise is one of the key components of cardiac rehabilitation, a therapy often used to help people recover from a heart attack or heart surgery, or to manage chronic cardiac pain in the chest, called angina. Continue article at original source

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