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Roxana Cristina Rad Bodan1,2,3, Adina Octavia Dușe4, Eniko Gabriela Papp2
1Doctoral School, "Victor Babeș" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timișoara, No.2 Eftimie Murgu Square, 300041 Timisoara, Romania.
Background:
The overweight population is a major public health problem which is typical for the 21st century, considering the peak of the noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). The connection between hypertension-the number-one risk factor of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs)-and the body mass index (BMI), which is growing worldwide, needs to be taken into consideration.
Methods:
Four homogeneous groups of twenty-five patients each with hypertension degree 1 benefited from different 8-week recovery programs: recommendation for a healthy lifestyle (all groups-A, B, C and D), antihypertensive medication (groups B, C and D), physical therapy program (group C), and hydrotherapy program (group D). Four parameters were pursued: body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (Wcir.), and systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP-DBP).
Results:
Intragroup comparison between initial and final testing registered a statistically significant decrease in all parameters for group C: BMI (p = 0.001), Wcir, SBP and DBP (p < 0.0001). Additionally, parameters of group D decreased significantly: BMI (p = 0.0005), Wcir, SBP and DBP (each p < 0.0001). Group A registered a statistical increase in the DPB parameter (p = 0.03), and group B had a significant decrease in SBP (p = 0.03).
Conclusions:
Implication in established physical therapy and hydrotherapy had a better outcome in diminishing all four parameters compared to the recommendations for a healthy lifestyle when patients had to improve their lifestyle by themselves, unsupervised.
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