title: [Achievement of physical activity healthy guidelines in hypertensive adults].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  It seems necessary to educate patients in the need of realize the importance of physical activity to improve their health, and specifically, about the important implications that the intensity of physical activity has for health and fitness benefits.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this was to evaluate achievement of physical activity recommendations for health in a group of hypertensive controlled patients from two primary care centers: La Estación y La Algodonera located in Talavera de la Reina (Toledo).
  
  
  METHODS
  
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross-sectional study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Primary care centers: La Estación y La Algodonera located in Talavera de la Reina.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 80 controlled hypertensive patients aged 40 to 60 years old who met the inclusion criteria were invited to the study. A sample of 52 patients obtained valid results to enter the study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Minutes of Moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA), minutes of light activity and number steps were measured. Data was displayed by gender and weekdays vs weekend days.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Only 59.6% of patients achieved the minimum recommendation of 30 minutes of MVPA at least every day to improve health. Male achieved significantly more MVPA during the weekend than female did. Only women presented significant differences between MVPA during week days vs weekend days.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  59.6% of hypertensive controlled patients of our sample achieve the minimal physical activity recommendations for health; the rest of the sample should increase their physical activity to achieve the recommendation and to improve their blood pressure levels.
authors.affiliation: D.U.E. Grupo de investigación PAFS-UCLM.. Cristina.Romero@uclm.es.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Romero Blanco
authors.affiliation: D.U.E. y Fisioterapeuta. E.A.P. Alcalá de Guadaira. Salud. Madrid. Grupo de investigación PAFS-UCLM.. diegojose.villalvilla@salud.madrid.org.
authors.forename: Diego José
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Villalvilla Soria
authors.affiliation: Graduadas en Ciencias del Deporte UCLM, miembros del Grupo de investigación PAFS-UCLM.. Susana.Aznar@uclm.es.
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cabanillas Cruz
authors.affiliation: Graduadas en Ciencias del Deporte UCLM, miembros del Grupo de investigación PAFS-UCLM..
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Laguna Nieto
authors.affiliation: Directora del grupo de investigación PAFS-UCLM. Profesora titular en la Facultad de Ciencias del Deporte, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. España.. Susana.Aznar@uclm.es.
authors.forename: Susana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aznar Laín
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001794:Blood Pressure; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic