Does a short home-based yoga program reduce blood pressure and improve quality of life in patients with hypertension?
Simple home-based yoga exercises may be a useful supplementary therapy to standard medical treatment for managing hypertension and improving quality of life in primary care.
A short yoga program for the patient to practice at home seems to have an antihypertensive effect, as well as a positive effect on self-rated quality of life compared to controls. This implies that simple yoga exercises may be useful as a supplementary blood pressure therapy in addition to medical treatment when prescribed by primary care physicians.
Wolff et al. (Sun,) studied this question.
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