date:Dec 28, 2018
. Hopefully if the exercise brought blood pressure down sufficiently they could be weaned off some of their medications.
There is, however, a caveat to that message. There is less of a blood pressure lowering effect in people who are older, Stewart explained. It's about half the magnitude of the change this analysis is showing.
Part of the problem in people 55 and older is that the arteries get stiffer with age. And that doesn't seem to get reversed much with exercise, he said. My guess is tha