Sitting less may be tied to lower blood pressure in postmenopausal women, according to results from The Rise For Health Study, published in Circulation last month. Specifically, postmenopausal women who stood an average of 25 times a day decreased their diastolic blood pressure by 2.24 mmHg when compared with women in the control group.

Although this number is just shy of a clinically meaningful change of 3-5 mmHg, the change still demonstrates the value of even mild physical exercise, according to lead author Sheri Hartman, Ph.D., professor and assistant dean of research at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health at the University of California San Diego.

Hartman recently sat down with Managed Healthcare Executive to explain what these results reveal about cardiovascular heal

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