Regular exercise is one of the best ways to maintain good health. In the case of hypertensive people it is especially indicated, because it has been proven that sport helps control blood pressure.
Both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Society of Arterial Hypertension have agreed that physical exercise can have positive results in reducing the risk of strokes and heart attacks. Both diseases have hypertension among their risk factors.
What is hypertension?
The WHO defines high blood pressure, also known as high or elevated blood pressure, as a disorder in which the blood vessels suffer from high pressure that is persistent. This, of course, can harm them.
Blood pressure is the force exerted by the blood pumped by the heart , against the walls of the blood vessels. If this resistance is higher than normal, the more effort the heart must exert to pump blood. And this happens every time the heart beats.
Hypertension is dangerous because it puts the heart and organs such as the kidney or brain at risk. It is the cause of the vast majority of myocardial infarctions in the world. Therefore it is important to prevent it. Sport helps control your blood pressure, and this is something the WHO added to its recommendations as early as 1989.
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