Need to lower your blood pressure? Try Tai Chi

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Want to reduce your blood pressure? Give tai chi a go, say Chinese researchers. The team conducted a trial with 342 participants aged 18 to 65 with prehypertension – a warning sign that they may get high blood pressure in the future. Participants were randomly assigned a Tai Chi group or a cardio group that performed four 60-minute supervised sessions, every week for 12 months. Tai Chi was found to be more effective than cardio in reducing blood pressure in these patients, the team say the practice could be useful in helping reduce blood pressure, especially as a safe activity for all ages that is easy to introduce in community settings.

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Organisation/s: China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, China

Funder: Funding/Support: This study was supported by grants 2018YFC1704900 and 2018YFC1704901 from the National Key Research and Development Program of China and grant CI2021A00919 from the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences Innovation Fund. Role of the Funder/Sponsor: The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

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