Key result
Systematic relaxation training yields prolonged blood pressure reductions in clinically significant hypertension.
Why the study?
Systematic training in relaxation may produce prolonged reductions in clinically significant hypertension, supporting a functional component in hypertension.
Does systematic training in relaxation reduce clinically significant hypertension?
Does systematic training in relaxation reduce clinically significant hypertension?
Relaxation therapy may offer a non-pharmacological approach to reducing clinically significant hypertension.
Should not yet change hypertension management; leaves open functional component hypothesis for randomized confirmation.
An ongoing study demonstrates that systematic training in relaxation can produce prolonged reductions in clinically significant hypertension. The results support the theory that hypertension often has a large functional component.
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W. Stewart Agras (1983) studied this question. Systematic training in relaxation produces prolonged reductions in clinically significant hypertension.
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