Exercise recommended for people with hypertension

Hypertension is the major risk factor for mortality and morbidity worldwide, causing some 9.4 million deaths in 2010 (Campbell et al. 2014).

As we discussed in the article Exercise and hypertension, physical activity is beneficial to reduce the overall risk of death and of death by cardiovascular accident. Also, exercise can prevent hypertension and decrease their levels in already hypertensive people.

Aerobic training, dynamic and isometric strength training and combined training appears to have beneficial effects on the diastolic and the systolic (less training combined in the latter).

Then we are going to show the physical activity recommended to prevent and reduce high blood pressure.

 

REFERENCES

• Campbell, N. R., Lackland, D. T., & Niebylski, M. L. (2014). High blood pressure: why prevention and control are urgent and important—a 2014 fact sheet from the World Hypertension League and the International Society of Hypertension. The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 16(8), 551-553.
• Cornelissen, V. A., Verheyden, B., Aubert, A. E., & Fagard, R. H. (2010). Effects of aerobic training intensity on resting, exercise and post-exercise blood pressure, heart rate and heart-rate variability.Journal of human hypertension, 24(3), 175-182.
• Devereux, G. R., Wiles, J. D., & Swaine, I. L. (2010). Reductions in resting blood pressure after 4 weeks of isometric exercise training.European journal of applied physiology, 109(4), 601-606.
• Millar, P. J., MacDonald, M. J., Bray, S. R., & McCartney, N. (2009). Isometric handgrip exercise improves acute neurocardiac regulation.European journal of applied physiology, 107(5), 509-515.
• Molmen-Hansen, H. E., Stolen, T., Tjonna, A. E., Aamot, I. L., Ekeberg, I. S., Tyldum, G. A., … & Stoylen, A. (2012). Aerobic interval training reduces blood pressure and improves myocardial function in hypertensive patients.European journal of preventive cardiology, 19(2), 151-160.

Exercise and hypertension