High blood pressure doesn’t do your heart any favors; means its working overtime and extra hard, not good.

It’s bad for both men and women, but a new study shows regular workouts can help keep women’s pulse rates low.

Writing in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, researchers found among 50,000 healthy adults, each increase of 10 beats per minute in resting heart rate, increased a woman’s risk of cardiac death by 18%.

Experts say a healthy heartbeat should be between 60 to 70 beats per minute.

The study showed women with a resting heart rate above 100 beats per minute had a 42% risk of fatal heart attack, but women who exercised regularly cut that risk.

Active women, even those with a pulse rate of over 87 beats per minute, did not have a significant increase in heart attacks

Via Reuters.

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