Evidence library · Blood pressure

Does other exercise affect blood pressure in menopause? What 6 studies found

Studies of other exercise in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women that measured blood pressure. 6 reported an improvement and 0 found no difference against the comparison group.

  1. Menopausal women aged 45 to 59 practiced Rusie Dutton traditional Thai exercise for 13 weeks and showed significant improvements in fitness, flexibility, blood pressure and quality of life versus controls.

    Reported an improvementRandomised trial · 50 women · 13 weeks · 2014Midlife womenCited 20 timesPubMed

  2. Postmenopausal women with stage-2 hypertension did 12 weeks of Taekwondo training, and researchers reported decreased blood pressure, arterial stiffness and epinephrine, and increased grip and leg strength.

    Reported an improvementRandomised trial · 20 women · 12 weeks · 2019PostmenopausalCited 21 timesPubMed

  3. In 16 hypertensive postmenopausal women, six weeks of capnometric breathing feedback training reduced 24 hour systolic blood pressure compared with an untrained control group.

    Reported an improvementRandomised trial · 32 women · 6 weeks · 2021PostmenopausalCited 1 timesPubMed

  4. A single session of multijoint isometric exercise lowered systolic and diastolic blood pressure over 24 hours, including sleep, in 10 medicated hypertensive postmenopausal women.

    Reported an improvementRandomised trial · 10 women · 2026PostmenopausalPubMed

  5. Postmenopausal women did 12 weeks of Bungy Pump Training, 3 times weekly, and showed greater gains in fitness and reductions in visceral fat and body fat than women doing daily activity.

    Reported an improvementControlled trial · 56 women · 12 weeks · 2025PostmenopausalCited 1 timesPubMed

  6. In a trial of 28 postmenopausal women, 12 weeks of a ring fit adventure exergame twice weekly reduced arterial stiffness and increased HDL cholesterol compared with no exercise.

    Reported an improvementControlled trial · 28 women · 12 weeks · 2026PostmenopausalPubMed

How to read this. Each line is one study, summarised in plain language from its PubMed abstract, with the authors' own sentence underneath on the study page. A count of studies is not a verdict: trials differ in size, length and quality, and a result in one group of women may not hold in another. Nothing here is medical advice.

Summaries are generated, then checked by machine against the abstract they came from; any summary that could not be matched word for word was left out. Our clinical lead is reviewing the summaries topic by topic, and this note will change when that is done. Corpus last refreshed 2026-11-03. Spotted a mistake? Tell us and we will fix the summary or remove the study.

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