title: [Experiences with running therapy in essential hypertension].
abstract: The authors report about a long-term study (three months) on blood pressure and heart rate at rest and during exercise (50 W) in hypertensive patients (WHO stadium I and I, n = 24) running twice a week. The control group were 15 healthy people who were running as well. In addition, the peripheral microcirculation (musculus tibialis anterior) was recorded by the Xenon-133 muscle clearance method and the cardiac output by means of radiocardiography (Indium 113m) as parameter of central hemodynamics. A positive influence of running on hypertension and hemodynamics, resulting in a significant decrease of systolic and diastolic blood pressure and a significant improvement of the peripheral microcirculation was registered. The measured values of blood pressure, heart rate and cardiac output show that there was no cardial risk caused by running at a velocity of 2 to 2.5 m/s.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Charité, Medizinische Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Winterfeld
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Siewert
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Strangfeld
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure; D002302:Cardiac Output; D006339:Heart Rate; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008833:Microcirculation / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012420:Running / Q000502:physiology*