By John Graby
Take Home Messages
- CVD remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality suggesting a need for improving its management
- Exercise is important in the management of specific conditions, e.g. hypertension, and has been shown to be as effective as first-line anti-hypertensive medication in improving blood pressure control
- A recent ESC Consensus Document highlighted, for the first time, how clinicians can prescribe exercise relative to an individual’s baseline hypertensive category and ethnicity
- Cardiologists and Clinical Practitioners need to proactively and directly discuss the role of specific forms of physical activity and exercise with patients
