Assessment of physical activity and fitness level of hypertensive adults in relation to their age.

Hypertension is a non viral disease correlated with reduced physical fitness and increased cardiovascular risk.This study aimed to determine the pattern of physical activity and fitness status of 30 hypertensive adults (young adults and middle adults) from urban indore.In this Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), muscle endurance, flexibility, type of workout, frequency, and duration of physical activity were evaluated.This study revealed that the poor and very poor cardiorespiratory fitness is more in middle adults as compared to young adults.Muscular endurance were low in middle adults and low flexibility were more in young adults .In physical activity yoga were more common in young adults and walking were more frequent in middle adults.Although higher amounts of young adult reported exercising for more than a five days a week while middle adults tends to involved longer exercise duration.Overall, the results shows that the hypertensive participants were low in fitness and physical activity levels especially in middle adults even many of them exercise regularly.The great management patter of healthy lifestyle like regular physical activity can help in prevention of cardiac risk.