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ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care2020

Comparison of the effect of Yoga, Zumba and Aerobics in controlling blood pressure in the Indian population.

Jerusha Santa Packyanathan, S Preetha

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Article in Journal of family medicine and primary care, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jerusha Santa PackyanathanUndergraduate Student, Bachelor of Dental Science, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
S PreethaDepartment of Physiology, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Saveetha University · IN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimThis study aims at comparing the effect of Yoga, Zumba dance, and Aerobic exercises in controlling blood pressure among the Indian population without using hypertensive drugs.

objectiveThis study is designed to analyze the effect of Yoga, Zumba, and Aerobics in controlling blood pressure among the Indian population and to determine which of the three is better to treat hypertension without using hypertensive drugs.

backgroundHypertension is a disease which is nowadays most commonly seen among children and adolescents and has been found that regular exercise tends to reduce the levels of high blood pressure in a very effective way among which the effects of aerobics exercise on reducing high blood pressure in hypertensive patients had been more convincing that regular aerobics exercise reduces the blood pressure by > 1.5 mmHg.

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Aerobicsblood pressurecardiovascular diseasesexercisehypertensionstressYogaZumba

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PMID32318379
PMCPMC7114029
OpenAlexW3009346753

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