RESUMO
Se realizó un estudio de intervención terapéutica en 66 pacientes de 20 a 59 años edad con hipertensión arterial leve, que acudieron a la Sala de Rehabilitación del municipio de Segundo Frente en la provincia de Santiago de Cuba, desde agosto del 2013 hasta igual mes del 2014, con vistas a determinar la efectividad del tratamiento acupuntural en ellos, para lo cual se conformaron 2 grupos: uno de estudio, al que se le aplicó la acupuntura, y otro de control, que recibió tratamiento convencional; ambos grupos fueron evaluados a los 5, 10 y 15 días de iniciada la terapia. Como principales resultados se obtuvo que todos los pacientes tratados con acupuntura disminuyeran las cifras de tensión arterial elevadas en un corto periodo de tiempo y sin necesidad de recurrir a otro tipo de terapia, lo cual demostró que esta alternativa terapéutica es efectiva para tratar la hipertensión arterial leve, por lo cual se recomendó su uso a tal efecto.
A study of therapeutic intervention in 66 patients from 20 to 59 years with mild hypertension who went to the Rehabilitation Room in Segundo Frente municipality in Santiago de Cuba province was carried out from August, 2013 to the same month of 2014, aimed at determining the effectiveness of the acupunctural treatment in them, for which 2 groups were formed: a study group, to which the acupuncture was applied, and a control group who received conventional treatment; both groups were evaluated at 5, 10 and 15 days of initiating the therapy. As main results it was obtained that all the patients treated with acupuncture decreased the values of high blood pressure in a short period of time and without necessity of appealing to another therapy type, which demonstrated that this therapeutic alternative is effective to treat the mild hypertension, reason why its use was recommended to this disorder.
Assuntos
Acupuntura , Hipertensão , Medicina TradicionalRESUMO
The effects of changing daily exercise habit on body fat, serum lipids and symptom-limited maximal exercise test (treadmill by Balke protocol) were evaluated in healthy males and males with mild hypertension (MHT) aged 30 to 59 yr during a period of one year. The subjects were selected from males who underwent physical examination. The results were as follows :<BR>A. HEALTHY MALES<BR>Study 1 : Subjects who exercised regularly (3 times or more/week) showed higher exercise tolerance and HDL cholesterol (HDLC) and less body fat. Compared to inactive subjects (sports 0-2 times/week), exercise tolerance was higher in the group who tried to walk as much as possible in their every day life.<BR>Study 2 : Inactive subjects without a family history of HT were classified by percentage body fat into three groups (H, M and L) . The obese group showed lower exercise tolerance, higher total cholesterol (TC) and lower HDLC. Heart rate (HR) and systolic blood pressure (BPs) at the same load during the exercise test were higher in the obese group.<BR>Study 3 : Revisited subjects who did not change their dietary habit for one year were selected from the average group of study 2. The subjects who increased their daily physical activity showed reduced body weight and body fat, increased exercise tolerance and HDLC, and lower HR and BPs under the same work load.<BR>B. MALES WITH MILD HYPERTENSION<BR>Study 4 : A similar study was conducted in inactive men with MHT (diastolic BP 90-104 mmHg), non-drug therapy at the first visit and no change in dietary habit for one year. Subjects who increased their daily activity for one year showed reduced body weight and body fat, and both resting BPs and BPd fell by 7 mmHg. HR and BPs decreased under the same work load.<BR>These results suggest that an increase in daily physical activity improves physical fitness, reduces blood pressure and decreases body fat in previously healthy males and in males with MHT.