The effect of controlled muscular training was investigated for stage I, II and III essential hypertension inpatients. This mode of treatment produced good therapeutic results obtained without administration of hypotensive drugs.
Exercise Therapy/methods , Hospitalization , Hypertension/therapy , Adult , Blood Pressure/drug effects , Blood Pressure/physiology , Chronic Disease , Clonidine/therapeutic use , Heart Rate/drug effects , Heart Rate/physiology , Humans , Hypertension/physiopathology , Male , Middle Aged , Physical Endurance/drug effects , Physical Endurance/physiology
A therapeutic rationed exercise course (30 daily sessions of bicycle ergometry) was carried out in 30 male coronary patients and 11 normal subjects. Central hemodynamic parameters, lipid metabolism and blood rheologic properties were examined before and after exercise. Regular exercise was shown to bring down erythrocyte membrane levels of triglycerides, fibrinogen and cholesterol and raise the level of high density lipoprotein cholesterol in coronary patients. There was a direct correlation between triglycerides and total peripheral resistance, and an inverse correlation between triglycerides and the cardiac index and another one between fibrinogen and the stroke index. The demonstrated decrease of blood viscosity is evidence of favorable clinical and hemodynamic changes in coronary patients.
Coronary Disease/rehabilitation , Exercise Therapy , Hemodynamics , Lipids/blood , Adult , Blood Viscosity , Coronary Disease/blood , Coronary Disease/physiopathology , Erythrocyte Deformability , Erythrocyte Membrane/analysis , Fibrinogen/analysis , Humans , Male , Membrane Lipids/analysis , Middle Aged , Rheology