Adjuvant Music therapy for patients with hypertension

 

Background

Hypertension is the first risk factor for cardiovascular associated diseases. With the change of lifestyle and rhythm, the prevalence of hypertension in countries around the world is increasing year by year [1].

 Negative emotions such as high-sodium diet, obesity, excessive drinking, and anxiety and depression are all risk factors for hypertension [2, 3]. 

Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression interact with hypertension. Previous epidemiological studies [4, 5]

 have found that about 38.5% of Chinese hypertensive patients are associated with anxiety, and 19.8% were associated with depression. 

Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can affect the degree of hypertension and reduce the quality of life of patients by affecting the release of vascular endothelial factor, reducing vascular activity, and increasing vascular resistance [6–8]. Therefore, it is very important to focus on improving patients’ anxiety and depression while treating hypertension.

At present, there are many drugs for the treatment of hypertension in clinic. Although they can control hypertension to a certain extent, long-term use of drug use is easy to produce drug resistance, and it is easy to relapse after drug withdrawal. Non pharmacological treatments can be effective in lowering blood pressure without other health risks. As one of the non-drug treatment methods, music therapy has been used as an adjuvant therapy in hypertension treatment. Currently, many scholars [9–11] 

have evaluated the psychological and physiological effects of music therapy on hypertensive patients, but the sample size of each study is small, and the research results remain different. Even though previous meta-analyses [12, 13] have analyzed the of the effect of music therapy on blood pressure in patients with hypertension, with more related studies published, updated meta-analyses on the role of music therapy for hypertention are needed. Therefore, this meta-analysis aimed to use the meta-analysis method to comprehensively evaluate the application effect of music therapy on hypertensive patients, in order to provide evidence-based basis for the treatment and management of hypertension.

Ref

BMC Complement Med Ther

. 2023 Apr 6;23(1):110.

 doi: 10.1186/s12906-023-03929-6.

Adjuvant music therapy for patients with hypertension: a meta-analysis and systematic review

Min Cao 1, Zhiyuan Zhang 1 2

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