Overview

• Replacing 30 minutes of sitting with light activity like walking or cleaning reduces the risk of another cardiac event by 50%, while moderate-to-vigorous exercise cuts it by 61%.
• Adding 30 minutes of sleep lowers the risk of recurrent heart problems or death by 14%, underscoring sleep's restorative role in recovery.
• Patients who were sedentary for more than 14 hours daily faced a 2.58 times higher risk of a cardiac event or death within one year.
• The study tracked 609 heart attack patients using wrist-worn accelerometers for 30 days post-discharge, with follow-up data collected over a year.
• The American Heart Association has updated its guidelines to emphasize a holistic recovery approach: 'sit less, move more, and sleep better.'