Key result
Lower resting heart rate is linked to greater longevity and reduced cardiovascular and all-cause mortality.
Why the study?
Studies on resting heart rate have drawn attention because maintaining values close to 60 bpm is associated with greater longevity, motivating an evaluation of how low resting heart rate relates to mortality.
Does a lower resting heart rate improve longevity and reduce mortality in healthy individuals and patients?
Does a lower resting heart rate improve longevity and reduce mortality in healthy individuals and patients?
Maintaining a lower resting heart rate, which can be achieved through aerobic exercise and mental relaxation, is associated with greater longevity and lower mortality.
Background: Living longer has been a challenge for science, especially in recent years. There are several lines of research that aim to provide new knowledge that can promote the increase in human longevity. Among these lines, studies on resting heart rate (RHR) have drawn attention because when RHR is maintained at values close to 60 bpm, is an important factor associated with greater longevity. Aim: To show that the low RHR is positively related to lower mortality from cardiovascular diseases and diseases caused by other factors. Methods: A threedecade retrospective analysis was performed from the main articles in which the relationship between resting heart rate and longevity was studied. Results: All studies reveal that in healthy people and in patients with certain illnesses, lower resting heart rate values provide greater longevity. Also, studies confirm that the practice of aerobic physical exercises performed regularly and mental relaxation are the most effective procedures to decrease RHR in a non-pharmacological way. The physiologic effect of reducing RHR appears to be an increase in parasympathetic tone, especially in the case of yoga, and a decrease in intrinsic HR by mechanisms not yet been fully understood. Conclusions: With the new results from important studies that confirmed this new possibility of increasing longevity, health professionals should be concerned with paying more attention to monitoring their patients' RHR towards interfering whenever necessary.
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Mário Augusto Paschoal (2021) conducted a review in Healthy individuals and patients with certain illnesses. Lower resting heart rate vs. Higher resting heart rate was evaluated on Longevity and mortality from cardiovascular diseases and other factors. Lower resting heart rate values are associated with greater longevity and lower mortality from cardiovascular and other diseases in both healthy individuals and patients with certain illnesses.
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