These sports really help against high blood pressure

The exercise of high blood pressure is as effective as beta-blockers or ACE inhibitors

Sport is healthy – that's what most people are aware of. Some sports may even have the same beneficial effects on hypertension as antihypertensive drugs. An international research team recently discovered this in a study of about 40,000 participants.

Researchers at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Stanford University in California have shown in a comprehensive meta-badysis of 391 studies on high blood pressure that walking, swimming, cycling and the simple weight training can produce the same effects as beta-blockers or ACEs. inhibitors. The results have recently been published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Generalized hypertension

About one in three adults in Germany suffers from hypertension. According to the German high pressure league, 20 to 30 million people are affected in this country. Hypertension is considered the number one risk factor for many heart diseases. To avoid this, many people consume drugs daily. But, according to a recent study, there are also other ways: The combination of endurance and bodybuilding is an effective way to lower blood pressure and can offer patients a good alternative to drugs.

Lower your blood pressure naturally and effectively

The research team badyzed the results of 391 studies in which 39,700 people participated. They have come to the conclusion that endurance training, such as swimming, cycling, walking or cycling, combined with simple strength training, such as weightlifting or push-ups, can also effectively lower blood pressure. than current drugs.

No one should stop the drugs without permission

Sport could be the ideal remedy, especially for patients who do not like to take medication regularly. The researchers however stressed that no one should sell his medication for hypertension with the help of an autopilot. Because in sports, just as with tablets to apply: Only regularity can maintain protection. Of course, the blood pressure must be constantly monitored with this method.

Sport instead of pills?

"We do not think that patients should stop using their antihypertensive drugs as a result of our study," said study director Dr. Huseyin Naci of the London School of Economics in a statement. press release in English. The results should rather be used to better integrate sport as a means of lowering blood pressure. For example, sports can be prescribed by a doctor. This should then control compliance and health effects. Only in this way can patients benefit from it.

Many people do not know their hypertension

High blood pressure increases the risk of having a heart attack or stroke, as well as developing vascular dementia. The dangerousness of hypertension is that it causes no symptoms. Many people do not notice their illness until serious sequelae appear. This is why we also call hypertension the "silent killer".

Dietary fiber also lowers blood pressure

In addition to sport, fiber can also help reduce blood pressure in a natural way. Dietary fiber has a similar effect on hypertension on hypotensives, recently published a German research team at the Center for Molecular Medicine Max Delbrück and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin in a study called "Circulation". (Vb)