date:Dec 28, 2018
, elevated and high blood pressure, the researchers found medications to be more effective than exercise at lowering systolic blood pressure - the top number in a blood pressure reading, which indicates the pressure on blood vessel walls when the heart pumps.
But when the team focused just on the higher-risk group with hypertension - defined in the study as systolic blood pressure of 140 mmHg or higher - they found exercise achieved results comparable to medication: a drop of 8.96 mmHg, on aver