Vol. 8, Issue 1, Part C (2022)

Background: Hypertension is the most common cardiovascular disease affecting more than one billion people worldwide. Yogic exercises (Asana, Pranayama and Meditation) have beneficial effects on hypertension.

Aims & Objectives: Study the effect of different types of pranayam on physiological parameters in stage-1(Systolic Blood Pressure 140–159 mmHg and Diastolic Blood Pressure 90–99 mmHg) Hypertension patients.

Materials & Methods: The study was conducted on 150 hypertensive patients aged 30-50 years, who were on salt reduction and antihypertensive drugs. They were randomized into three subgroups: subgroup 1aand 1b doing 20 and 30 min. pranayam respectively for 3 months and control group not doing any type of pranayam. Systolic blood pressure (mmHg), diastolic blood pressure (mmHg), and heart rate (beats per minutes) and valsalva ratio of all patients were assessed at day 1stand monthly for 3 months. The data were analyzed using paired tʹ test and ANOVA test by SPSS 20.0 Software (trail Version).

Results: In the present study, there were significant reduction in mean values of systolic blood pressure(133.28 + 3.65), diastolic blood pressure (88.80 + 1.89), heart rate rate (71.98+ 3.1) and VR (1.42 + 0.049) after 3 months of pranayam practices in study group as compared to control group in whom mean values of the systolic blood pressure (138.06 + 3.24), diastolic blood pressure (91.24 + 2.00), and heart rate rate (76.48 + 3.43) and VR (1.38 + 0.02) was noted after 3 months. From the present study it was observed that a significant reduction in the systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and heart rate and increase VR in all the subjects (p