Aerobic exercise can help do without drugs to lower blood pressure

Friday – December 28, 2018

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The researchers pointed out that aerobic exercises resulted in a similar drop in systolic blood pressure, such as antihypertensive drugs (Reuters).

London: Middle East Online

According to one study, exercise could reduce blood pressure as much as the medication.
The researchers collected data from nearly 400 randomized trials, assessed the effects of medications for hypotension and exercised lowering blood pressure exercises.
The researchers found that drugs and sports reduced blood pressure by about 9 millimeters of mercury in hypertensive patients.
"The exercises seem to cause similar reductions in systolic blood pressure, like the antihypertensives commonly used in people with high blood pressure," said study author Hussein Naji, a researcher in the field. health policies at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Naji and colleagues studied the results of 194 randomized trials, examined the effect of antihypertensive drugs, and 197 trials tested the effect of exercise on reducing hypertension.
When reviewing data from all participants, the researchers found that drugs were more effective than exercise in reducing systolic blood pressure, the highest figure in reading blood pressure, indicating the pressure on the walls of the blood vessels when the heart pumps blood.
But when the team focused only on the group under very high pressure (the highest number in the pressure reading was 140 or more), they found that the exercises were same result as the drug, reducing the pressure to 8.96 millimeters of mercury on average.
Naji and his colleagues noted that they had examined the effect of different types of exercises and had discovered that all kinds of exercises, even the simplest, were helpful.

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