According to a recent study, five minutes of exercise each day may lower blood pressure.

According to the study, which was released Thursday by specialists from a global academic partnership headed by the University of Sydney and University College London, engaging in five minutes of physical activity each day, such as stair climbing or an uphill walk, may help lower blood pressure.

The Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep (ProPASS) Consortium found that a clinically significant drop in blood pressure may be achieved by substituting 20–27 minutes of daily exercise for sedentary behavior.

According to Emmanuel Stamatakis, a joint senior author and director of the ProPASS Consortium from the University of Sydney, “high blood pressure is one of the biggest health issues globally, but unlike some major causes of cardiovascular mortality, there may be relatively accessible ways to tackle the problem in addition to medication.”

“The discovery that even five minutes more of exercise per day could be linked to measurable drops in blood pressure readings highlights the potential effectiveness of brief bursts of higher-intensity movement in blood pressure management.”

In order to determine the relationship between blood pressure and switching from one kind of activity to another, the study team examined data from 14,761 subjects.

According to the team’s estimates, a daily minimum of 20 minutes of exercise might replace sedentary behavior and lower the incidence of cardiovascular disease by 28%.

According to estimates from the World Health Organization, 1.28 billion persons between the ages of 30 and 79 have hypertension, or consistently high blood pressure, and 46% of those adults are not aware they have the illness.