Qigong Institute

Author: Kelvin Tsoi^1,2, Amy Lam³, Joshua Tran³, Ziyu Hao¹, Karen Yiu², Yook-Chin Chia^4,5, Yuda Turana⁶, Saulat Siddique⁷, Yuqing Zhang⁸, Hao-Min Cheng^9,10,11,12, Ji-Guang Wang¹³, Kazuomi Kario¹⁴; HOPE Asia Network
Affiliation:
¹ The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
² Stanley Ho Big Data Decision Analytics Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
³ Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
⁴ Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medical and Life Sciences, Sunway University, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia.
⁵ Department of Primary Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
⁶ Department of Neurology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.
⁷ Punjab Medical Center, Lahore, Pakistan.
⁸ Divisions of Hypertension and Heart Failure, Fu Wai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
⁹ Center for Evidence-based Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
¹⁰ Ph.D. Program of Interdisciplinary Medicine (PIM), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
¹¹ Institute of Public Health, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
¹² Institute of Health and Welfare Policy, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
¹³ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, the Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Hypertension, State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, National Research Centre for Translational Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
¹⁴ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan.
Conference/Journal: J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich)
Date published: 2023 Mar 22
Other: Special Notes: doi: 10.1111/jch.14610. , Word Count: 220

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 being on Chinese exercise. Evidence suggests that exercise training, regardless of Western or Chinese exercise, generally reduced both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. High-intensity intermittent training did not further reduce blood pressure when compared to moderate-intensity continuous training. Conflicting results on the effectiveness of blood pressure reduction when comparing Chinese and Western exercise training were observed. This suggests the comparable effectiveness of Chinese exercise training, in particularly Tai Chi, to general or aerobic exercise training in terms of blood pressure reduction. The Chinese exercise modality and intensity may be more suitable for the middle-aged and elderly population.

Keywords: Antihypertensive Therapy; Exercise/Hypertension; Lifestyle Modification/Hypertension; Non-Pharmacological Therapy; Western and Chinese exercise.

PMID: 36946438 DOI: 10.1111/jch.14610

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