Effect of complementary therapy to blood pressure reduction in patients with hypertension: A literature review

Abstract

Background: Hypertension has a high mortality rate and its prevalence increases with age. One intervention to reduce high blood pressure is with complementary therapy as non-pharmacological treatment.

Purpose: To find out whether complementary therapy is effective in lowering blood pressure in people with hypertension. Based on electronic databases from national and international publications such as Google Scholar and PubMed.

Method: A literature review using an electronic database that uses national journals and international journals from Google Scholar and PubMed, with the keywords “hypertension, blood pressure and complementary therapy”.

Results: After conducting a preliminary literature search on Google Scholar and PubMed, 1243 articles were found with the same title; 1231 of them were discarded because they were less relevant to the issue of complementary therapy to reduce blood pressure in hypertensive patients. Requirements were met by 12 full-text articles.

Conclusion: patients with hypertension can reduce their blood pressure effectively by using complementary therapies.

Suggestion: This approach can be used as an intervention or alternative to non-pharmacological blood pressure measures because it can drastically reduce blood pressure after therapy.