March 1, 2000Coronary Artery Disease

Exercise and hypertension

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Why the study?

Does regularly performed aerobic exercise lower blood pressure in patients with essential hypertension?

Population

Patients with essential hypertension, including treated patients with severe hypertension and left…

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PKPeter KokkinosPreventive Cardiology VPVasilios PapademetriouInterventional Cardiology

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Implication

Supports aerobic exercise as adjunctive BP-lowering strategy in essential hypertension; leaves open optimal intensity and durability of effect.

Structured PICO

Does regularly performed aerobic exercise lower blood pressure in patients with essential hypertension?

Population

Patients with essential hypertension, including treated patients with severe hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy

Intervention

Regularly performed aerobic exercise (mild to moderate intensity)

Outcome

Lowering of blood pressuresurrogate

Mild to moderate aerobic exercise is a safe and effective intervention to lower blood pressure and potentially reduce medication requirements in patients with essential hypertension.

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Kokkinos et al. (2000) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a70ae39439bab0cabc3461e https://doi.org/10.1097/00019501-200003000-00002

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Hypertension management

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Implication

Supports aerobic exercise as adjunctive BP-lowering strategy in essential hypertension; leaves open optimal intensity and durability of effect.

Exercise and hypertension

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Exercise and hypertension

Discussion

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