Source: Gastr Cancer  |  Posted 9 years ago

Regular exercise and weight loss reduce blood pressure and improve left ventricular hypertrophy in mildly hypertensive people who are sedentary and overweight.

Specialists at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States, noted that there was more illness and death among hypertensive people with hypertrophy and concentric remodeling of the left ventricle. There was little or no evidence that changing lifestyle, known to reduce blood pressure, would benefit target organs, the specialists said.

They conducted a trial to assess the effects of regular aerobic exercise or exercise plus weight management counselling on left ventricular mass and geometry in 82 overweight, sedentary volunteers aged approximately 47 years who had high-normal or mildly elevated blood pressures (140