Does frequent physical activity reduce vascular disease risk more than moderate activity in women?
While moderate physical activity lowers vascular disease risk compared to inactivity, increasing the frequency of activity may not provide additional progressive risk reduction in women.
Moderate physical activity is associated with a lower risk of coronary heart disease, venous thromboembolic event, and cerebrovascular disease than inactivity. However, among active women, there is little to suggest progressive reductions in risk of vascular diseases with increasing frequency of activity.
Armstrong et al. (Tue,) studied this question.