[Non-drug modification of blood pressure in a health resort]

1,049 patients between 30 and 69 years were treated in a sanitarium for 28 days. Here no change of the medicamentous therapy which had influence on the blood pressure took place. As remedies of cure were applied: physical conditional training, changes of nutrition including restriction of calories and Na, physiotherapy including sauna. The average decrease of blood pressure at the end of the cure was in patients with normal blood pressure 4.42 Torr (0.59 kPa) systolically and 3.52 Torr (0.47 kPa) diastolically, in patients with borderline hypertension 15.39 Torr (2.05 kPa) systolically and 6.32 Torr (0.84 kPa) diastolically and in patients with hypertension 27.59 Torr (3.67 kPa) systolically and 11.49 Torr (1.53 kPa) diastolically. In a former year of cure without conditional training and with more insignificant reduction of body weight no reduction of blood pressure was the result in patients with normal blood pressure, in patients with borderline hypertension a clearly more insignificant, and only in patients with hypertension simultaneously using antihypertensive medicaments a similarly expressed reduction of the blood pressure was achieved. On the basis of a rescreening the efforts for a permanent success of the non-medicamentous reduction of the blood pressure was discussed.