New Delhi, April 10, 2025.
Relaxing techniques, including yoga, meditation and breath control, help bring down one’s blood pressure in short-term. However, the long-term effects are unclear, according to a review of previously published studies.
Researchers from the University of Bristol, UK, said that more rigorously designed and longer duration studies are needed to confirm if relaxing methods can help treat high blood pressure.
Hypertension, a chronic condition, will require long-term treatments and behavioural changes and thus, interventions providing short-term benefits are “unlikely to be clinically useful”, they added.
