{"id":740,"date":"2023-02-01T16:28:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T16:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=740"},"modified":"2023-02-01T16:28:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T16:28:59","slug":"exercise-may-lower-high-blood-pressure-as-much-as-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"Exercise may lower high blood pressure as much as medication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/round-up\/no-sweat\/\">Exercise<\/a>\u00a0could be just as effective in lowering high blood pressure as prescribed medication. Researchers pooled data from nearly 400 trials and found that\u00a0for people with high blood pressure, activity such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article-topic\/fitness\/\">walking, swimming and simple weight training<\/a>\u00a0seemed to be just as good as most drugs used to treat it. However, the team warns people\u00a0should not stop taking their medication until further studies are carried out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Continued Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2188776-exercise-may-lower-high-blood-pressure-as-much-as-medication\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2188776-exercise-may-lower-high-blood-pressure-as-much-as-medication\/<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Exercise%20may%20lower%20high%20blood%20pressure%20as%20much%20as%20medication&amp;body=An%20analysis%20of%20nearly%20400%20trials%20suggests%20that%20exercise%20might%20be%20as%20effective%20for%20people%20with%20high%20blood%20pressure%20as%20taking%20the%20most%20commonly-used%20drugs%0D%0Aread%20more:%20https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2188776-exercise-may-lower-high-blood-pressure-as-much-as-medication\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise\u00a0could be just as effective in lowering high blood pressure as prescribed medication. Researchers pooled data from nearly 400 trials and found that\u00a0for people with high blood pressure, activity such as\u00a0walking, swimming and simple weight training\u00a0seemed to be just as good as most drugs used to treat it. However, the team warns people\u00a0should not stop taking their medication until further studies are carried out. Continued Article: https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2188776-exercise-may-lower-high-blood-pressure-as-much-as-medication\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}