[Measured walking as a means of secondary prevention of arterial hypertension]

An epidemiologic study of a representative sample of a population of 40- to 59-year-old males assessed the effect of one year of rationed walking, as a nonmedicated method of secondary prevention of moderately persistent arterial hypertension, on arterial blood pressure, its response to stress, and physical working capacity; the utility of training regimens after a course of medication to control arterial blood pressure is demonstrated.