Kelvin Tsoi, Amy Lam, Joshua Tran, Ziyu Hao, Karen Yiu, Yook-Chin Chia, Yuda Turana, Saulat Siddique, Yuqing Zhang, Hao-Min Cheng, Ji-Guang Wang, Kazuomi Kario
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...
March 22, 2023: Journal of Clinical Hypertension