The Western and Chinese exercise training for blood pressure reduction among hypertensive patients: An overview of systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT: Hypertension remains the world's leading cause of premature death. Interventions such as exercise, diet modification, and pharmacological therapy remain the mainstay of hypertension treatment. Numerous systematic reviews and meta-analyses demonstrated the effectiveness of western exercises, such as aerobic exercise and resistance exercise, in reducing blood pressure in hypertensive patients. There is recently emerging evidence of blood pressure reduction with Chinese exercises, such as Tai Chi, Baduanjin, and Qigong. The current overview of systematic reviews aims to evaluate the quality and descriptively summarize the evidence for the effectiveness of western and Chinese exercises for hypertension management. Thirty-nine systematic reviews were included in this overview, with 15 of those

SUBMITTER: Tsoi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11654863 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature