Exercise positively influences cardiovascular disease risk factors including blood pressure, diabetes, lipids, cholesterol, stress response, endothelial function, and autonomic nervous system function.

“the risk factors that contribute to cardiovascular disease all cause mortality are all influenced by exercise and physical activity these would be blood pressure diabetes to some extent lipids and cholesterol and also how you deal with stress I think you get the big three there there are some other kind of uh new age or second second wave risk factors like endothelial function the lining of the blood vessels in your body that improve with exercise the way what's called your autonomic nervous system and and people may have heard of vagal tone or heart rate variability that's also influenced positively by exercise”