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Acupuncture lowers blood pressure, improves cardiac function, and reverses hypertrophy in early essential hypertension.
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Forty-nine patients with initial stages of essential hypertension (EH) were investigated using phase systole analysis and echocardiography during acupuncture (reflexotherapy) treatment. It was established that even at the initial stages of EH increasing of myocardial mass and the disturbances of contractile and diastolic activity of myocardium take place. As a result of acupuncture a stable hypotensive effect, improvement or normalization of contractile function and diastolic values, a decrease of energy loss, reversal of myocardial hypertrophy were achieved. It is the decrease of sympathetic influences on the circulation system that plays an important part in the onset of these positive changes.
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Radzievsky et al. (1989) studied essential hypertension (n=49). Acupuncture (reflexotherapy) was evaluated on Myocardial contraction and relaxation, hypotensive effect, and myocardial hypertrophy. Acupuncture achieved a stable hypotensive effect, improved contractile and diastolic functions, and reversed myocardial hypertrophy in patients with initial stages of essential hypertension.
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