Trial reportJournal of human hypertension2010
Regular slow-breathing exercise effects on blood pressure and breathing patterns at rest.
Trial report in Journal of human hypertension, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 68 citations in OpenAlex.
- Nonpharmacologic Interventions for Reducing Blood Pressure in Adults With Prehypertension to Established Hypertension.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2020Pooled it
- The effect of slow-loaded breathing training on the blood pressure response to handgrip exercise in patients with isolated systolic hypertension.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2017Trial
- Time sequence of autonomic changes induced by daily slow-breathing sessions.Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 2015Trial
- Long Exhalations as Complementary Treatment for Chronic Pain: A Pilot Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
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- Effect of breathing exercises on blood pressure and heart rate: A systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of cardiology. Cardiovascular risk and prevention · 2024Article
- Signaling pathways in vascular function and hypertension: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic interventions.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2023Review
- Breathing exercise for hypertensive patients: A scoping review.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Are home-based exercises effective to reduce blood pressure in hypertensive adults? A systematic review.Clinical hypertension · 2022Review
- Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System Activity during Slow Breathing in Supine Position.Rehabilitation research and practice · 2021Article
- Ethnicity Differences in Sleep Changes Among Prehypertensive Adults Using a Smartphone Meditation App: Dose-Response Trial.JMIR formative research · 2020Article
- Meditation smartphone application effects on prehypertensive adults' blood pressure: Dose-response feasibility trial.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2018Article
- Role of Paced Breathing for Treatment of Hypertension.Current hypertension reports · 2017Review
- [Design of portable blood pressure depressor based on slow breathing training].Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi · 2017Article
- Effects of slow and regular breathing exercise on cardiopulmonary coupling and blood pressure.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2017Article
- Effect of respiratory pattern on automated clinical blood pressure measurement: an observational study with normotensive subjects.Clinical hypertension · 2017Article
- Device-Guided Breathing for Hypertension: a Summary Evidence Review.Current hypertension reports · 2016Review
- Device-guided breathing exercises for the treatment of hypertension: An overview.World journal of cardiology · 2014Review
- The sympathetic nervous system and blood pressure in humans: implications for hypertension.Journal of human hypertension · 2012Review
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Abstract
Previous studies reported that a device-guided slow-breathing (DGB) exercise decreases resting blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive patients. This study investigated the effects of daily practice of DGB on (a) 24-h BP and breathing patterns in the natural environment, as well as (b) BP and breathing pattern during clinic rest. Altogether, 40 participants with pre-hypertension or stage 1 hypertension were trained to decrease breathing rate through DGB or to passively attend to breathing (control, CTL) during daily 15-min sessions. The participants practiced their breathing exercise at home for 4 weeks. The DGB (but not the CTL) intervention decreased clinic resting BP, mid-day ambulatory systolic BP (in women only) and resting breathing rate, and increased resting tidal volume. However, 24-h BP level was not changed by DGB or CTL interventions, nor was overnight breathing pattern. These findings are consistent with the conclusion that a short-term, autonomic mechanism mediated the observed changes in resting BP, but provided no evidence that regular DGB affected factors involved in long-term BP regulation. Additional research will be needed to determine whether 24-h BP can be lowered by a more prolonged intervention.
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