Stress, sitting work and overstrain on the weekend expose a heart attack

Working sitting with little physical activity for hours, having a job that generates a lot of poorly managed stress and wanting to do all the exercise that has not been done during the week during the weekend means buying all the ballots to suffer a heart attack.

This has been explained during the Efe Salud Dialogues "Cardiovascular health and work environment" different specialists who have analyzed the relationship between cardiovascular diseases and work, where 45% of deaths recorded are caused by this type of pathology.

The Quirónprevention Alicante medical coordinator, Ramón Portolés, has pointed out that it is important to distinguish between physical activity and physical exercise or sport.

Because the physical activity of "everyday" life is "drastically decreasing in the vast majority of jobs", it is necessary to increase physical exercise, but always in a healthy way, since, as Quironsalud cardiologist Alejandro Pascual explains , "It is not worth doing on the weekend what you have to do throughout the week."

Ideally, train daily, or at least 30 or 40 minutes three or four times a week in a way, according to physical ability.

For example, a person who is sitting all week and who makes 200 kilometers by bike on Saturday cannot consider that he is doing a healthy sport and incurs serious cardiovascular risks.

In fact, the head of Cardiology of Quirónsalud Alicante, Luis González, explained that "that executive who works, who closes business at a meal and is out all day or doing sedentary life, and suddenly plays a game of paddle a late a week, "with that game he is" buying all the ballots for that day. "

Portolés has pointed out that before starting the physical exercise you have to assess the cardiovascular situation of the person, his resistance, his muscular tone and his elasticity.

For González, if a person with a very sedentary job considers starting to do physical activity, a check should first be done and "control how it is before deciding on a beginning of activity that should be progressive."

On this issue, the second vice president of the Valencian Society of Medicine and Safety at Work, Ignacio Palafox, has pointed out that there are specific recommendations on how to do sports and advises walking at least half an hour a day but not walking, but "as if you were arriving late somewhere. "

And during the workday he recommends "anything" that increases the heart rate, as it forces you to get up, not take the elevator or perform isometric exercises.

Specialists encourage everyone who responds to the profile of sedentary work and moderate exercise over the weekend, especially if they are over 45 years old, to undergo a heart ultrasound and a stress test that determines issues such as their threshold anaerobic, how trained you are or how fast you reach the heart rate cap.