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Exercise just as good as drugs in war on major disease
Exercise ‘just as potent’ as drugs against many major diseases
By Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent
1:00PM GMT 13 Dec 2013
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Exercise could be as effective as some of the best drugs which protect against major diseases, research has found.
A study of more than 300 trials has found that physical activity was better than medication in helping patients recovering from strokes – and just as good as drugs in protecting against diabetes and in stopping heart disease worsening.
The research, published in the British Medical Journal, analysed data about studies on 340,000 patients diagnosed with one of four diseases: heart disease, chronic heart failure, stroke or diabetes.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10515917/Exercise-just-as-good-as-drugs-in-war-on-major-disease.html
In the write up of Laura Donnelly, titled “Exercise just as good as drugs in war on major disease” (of 1:00PM GMT 13 Dec 2013) there is a line-“Only the patients who were recovering from heart failure fared best when prescribed drugs, where ANTI-DIURETIC medication was most effective.”
However, they said their analysis found far more trials examining drugs, than those which measured the impact of exercise.
I would like to point out that Antidiuretic drugs given in heart failure would rather exacerbate the condition of heart failure