Exercise can lower blood pressure as much as the drug does by Reuters

(Reuters) – According to one study, exercise can reduce blood pressure as much as possible.

The researchers collected data from nearly 400 randomized trials evaluating the effects of antihypertensive drugs and exercises aimed at lowering blood pressure. The researchers found that drugs and sports reduced blood pressure by about nine 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 his colleagues studied the results of 194 randomized trials examining the effect of antihypertensive drugs and 197 tests on the effect of exercise on reducing hypertension.

By examining data from all participants, researchers found that drugs were more effective than exercise in reducing systolic blood pressure, which is the highest figure in blood pressure reading, which indicates the pressure exerted on the walls of the blood vessels when the heart pumps the blood.

But when the team focused only on the group under very high pressure, the highest number indicating a pressure of 140 or more, they found that the exercises produced the same result with the drug. , reducing the pressure by 8.96 mmHg 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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