• Email Us: [email protected]
  • Contact Us: +1 718 874 1545
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Medical Market Report

  • Home
  • All Reports
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

“Breath Training” Twice A Day Can Lower Blood Pressure, Study Finds

September 22, 2022 by Deborah Bloomfield

Do you go to the gym to strengthen your body? Well, you may be missing out on training some vital muscles – the ones involved in breathing. New research shows that training these muscles each day can reduce high blood pressure and promote heart health.

The cardiovascular and respiratory systems are heavily connected, despite them often being in two different disciplines of study. For example, shortness of breath is often one of the main symptoms of congestive heart failure, while pulmonary hypertension and right-side heart failure are associated with structural lung disease. Therefore, it may be no surprise that improvement of the lung muscles may also improve heart function.

Advertisement

High blood pressure is one of the primary modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. As we age, the incidence of above-normal blood pressure can also increase. For public health initiatives, addressing these high blood pressures is an important one.

One way to do this is to target the breathing muscles. Inspiratory muscle strength training (IMST) is a method involving breathing against a resistance device over a long period of time. This method was originally developed for athletes, but now it is also being implemented in healthy adults and non-ventilator-dependent patients.

In a recent study, researchers took healthy volunteers (aged 18-82) and instructed them do a five-minute daily breathing technique (30 breaths), 5-7 days/week for six weeks, using a machine called PowerBreathe. This hand-held device looks like an inhaler but enables the participants to undertake resistance training breathing techniques.

Advertisement

 

Blood pressure is normally measured in millimeters of mercury (mmHg), as this measurement was used in the first blood pressure gauges and is used as a standard measurement of unit. There are two numbers in blood pressure; Systolic blood pressure (the first number) which is the pressure from the blood on artery walls when the heart is beating, and diastolic blood pressure (the second number) which is the pressure from blood on the artery when the heart is at rest. 

According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the normal blood pressure level is 120/80 mmHg.    

Advertisement

In this study, the participants who did the breathing technique found that the systolic blood pressure was lowered by 9 mmHg. This is an exciting prospect, as this type of exercise can be easily done at home or by people unable to do traditional aerobic exercise. The reduction in this blood pressure was also seen in a 6-week follow up visit after the individuals who had stopped training.

The volunteers also saw improvement in nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability. This is important as this can promote good blood flow and widen blood vessels – this combination will help prevent buildup of plaque in arteries. This NO improvement was through a combination of decreased oxidative stress and increased endothelial NO synthase activation.

This study was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA).

Deborah Bloomfield
Deborah Bloomfield

Related posts:

  1. Biden failed to secure summit with China’s Xi in call last week -FT
  2. Glassdoor acquires Fishbowl, a semi-anonymous social network and job board, to square up to LinkedIn
  3. Dior brings bold splash of colour to Paris fashion week
  4. N.Korea’s Kim calls for improving people’s lives amid ‘grim’ economy

Source Link: "Breath Training" Twice A Day Can Lower Blood Pressure, Study Finds

Filed Under: News

Primary Sidebar

  • Tiny Triceratops-Tackling Tyrannosaur Was Its Own Species, Not A Baby T. Rex
  • What Makes Ammolite Gemstones, A Rare Kind Of Fossilized Ammonite, So Vibrant? It’s All In The Nacre
  • Something Melted This Tesla’s Windscreen. Could It Have Been A World-First Meteorite Collision?
  • Carnivorous “Death-Ball” Sponge Among 30 New Deep-Sea Weirdos Discovered In The Southern Ocean
  • Chimps Can Revise Beliefs When Confronted With Conflicting Evidence. Can You?
  • Explosive Airbursts, Like Tunguska, Might Be Hiding Among “Halloween Fireballs” Meteor Shower
  • One Of The World’s Rarest Penguins Is Actually Three Subspecies In A Trench Coat
  • “I Am The Allergen”: The Super-Rare Condition That Makes Everyone Else Allergic To You
  • 42,000-Year-Old Yellow Crayon Suggests Neanderthals Created Art – And It’s Still Sharp Too
  • IFLScience Investigates The Loch Ness Monster: A Round-Up Of Our Spooky Season Nessie Deep Dive
  • Why An Eastern Pacific Tear In Earth’s Crust Could Spare The Pacific Northwest… Eventually
  • JWST Reveals Never-Before-Seen Details Of The Red Spider Nebula And It’s Spectacular
  • “Breaking Records By Extraordinary Margins”: 22 Of Earth’s 34 Vital Signs At Record Levels
  • “The Most Important Unsolved Problem In Pure Math”: Where Is Humanity At With Prime Numbers?
  • The “Great Halloween Solar Storms”: 22 Years Ago, One Of The Most Powerful CMEs Ever Hit Earth
  • IFLScience Investigates The Loch Ness Monster: A Documentary On The Science, The Story, And The Power Of Belief
  • Remarkably Preserved 23-Million-Year-Old “Frosty” Rhino Discovered In Canadian Arctic
  • Want To “Time Travel” Back To Your Childhood? Baby Filter Image Illusion Could Unlock Lost Memories
  • The Sun Is Giving Us A Spooky Grimace Just In Time For Halloween
  • Comet 3I/ATLAS Reaches Perihelion Today – “Alien Spaceship” Hypothesis To Be Tested Once And For All
  • Business
  • Health
  • News
  • Science
  • Technology
  • +1 718 874 1545
  • +91 78878 22626
  • [email protected]
Office Address
Prudour Pvt. Ltd. 420 Lexington Avenue Suite 300 New York City, NY 10170.

Powered by Prudour Network

Copyrights © 2025 · Medical Market Report. All Rights Reserved.

Go to mobile version