Exercício Físico Como Tratamento Não Farmacológico Da Hipertensão Arterial - Artigo De Revisão

Abstract

This systematic review addresses physical exercise as a non-pharmacological treatment for high blood pressure. disposing of what hypertension is, its etiology and the effects of exercise, aiming to capture information on the performance of exercise in hypertensive subjects. It is a literature review in five databases: Virtual Health Library (VHL), Pubmed, Medline, Periodicals and Scielo. Descriptors: Hypertension, physical exercise and physical activity. Initially, 117 potentially relevant titles distributed were found. After the identification, screening and eligibility process, the systematic review included 17 articles. Aerobic, resistance and resistance exercises are active in reducing the levels of systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), heart rate (HR), double product (DP), mean blood pressure (MAP) and postexercise hypotension (PEH), promoting benefits for the control of arterial hypertension (AH) and its complications and eventual correlated diseases. From the results found, it is concluded that the non-pharmacological treatment is composed of aerobic, functional, rhythmic, resistance, running on a treadmill and swimming pool with adequate durations, volumes, frequencies and intensities to generate physiological adaptations they are effective to generate control and/or decrease in the pressure levels of SBP, DBP, HR, DP values and even provide PEH.