Sunny walking counts more
Rui Zhang1,
Hong Chen1,
Yi-xiao Liu1,
Wen-hui Zhang1,
Qin Lu2,
Hiromichi Yamanishi2,
Chiaki Yamanishi2,
Kyosuke Yamanishi3,
Yu-lan Qiu3,
Xiao-fei Ye1,
Zi-rui Huang1,
Bo-yuan Zhang1,
Yi-fei Chen1,
Yan-qian Zheng1,
Yong-fang Zhang1,
Zi-zhen Guo1,
Dong Dong1,
Tie-xin Liu1,
Yi-qing Dai1,
Mei-han Xu1,
Yu Hao1,
Sheng-zhou Li1,
Fei-yang Cai1,
Rui-qi Wang1,
Xin-yi Guo1,
De-hao Zhu1,
Hai-yang Zhang1,
Zhi-tong Zeng1,
Hideaki Higashino2
1 Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
2 Hirakata Ryoikuen, Osaka 573-0122, Japan
3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Public Health, Shanghai 200025, China
Correspondence to: Hong Chen: hchen100@shsmu.edu.cn, Hideaki Higashino: higasino3@osaka.zaq.jp,
DOI: 10.1038/s41401-019-0241-9
Received: 20 February 2019
Accepted: 25 April 2019
Advance online: 27 June 2019
Abstract
In our previous article entitled “Low-intensity walking as mild medication for pressure control in prehypertensive and hyperten-sive subjects: how far shall we wander?” published in this journal [1], we reported mild but significant reductions in both blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) after low-intensity walking at a speed of 3 km/h (2.5 metabolic equivalents of task, METs), accompanied by a transient elevation in urine β-endorphin. In a recent study observing environmental influence on low-intensity walking, we found unexpectedly interesting results that we would like to share with the readers of the journal.
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