Physical activity reduces the risk of death in patients with hypertension.

Abstract

The objective or aim of this review was to determine a relation between the level of realized physical activity and the reduction of the risk of death in hypertensive patients. A search was conducted for the identification of the documents from this review that included epidemiological cohort studies, relevant publications were identified in the biomedical databases PubMed and Cochrane Collaboration, the search strategy follows the recommendations of PRISMA. The results showed that an association exists between the level of physical activity and the risk of death in patients with hypertension. There was a diminution of death that ranges between 17-67 % in the hypertensive ones that do high physical activity levels. The results support the theory that regular physical activity is associated with a reduction in the rates of mortality in hypertensive patients and it is suggested that this protective effect can be of great benefit in a lower incidence of disease and cardiovascular death. In addition it is noted that the studies that consider ages of 40 to 80 years, the reduction of relative risk was 28-67%. Thus it is suggested that physical activity is likely to generate higher profits in the older age groups.