Football as a treatment for hypertension in untrained 30-55-year-old men: a prospective randomized study

The present study investigated whether football has favorable effects in the treatment of mild‐to‐moderate arterial hypertension in untrained middle‐aged men. Twenty‐five untrained males aged 31–54 year with mild‐to‐moderate hypertension were randomized to a football training group (FTG, two 1‐h sessions per week) and a control group receiving physician‐guided traditional recommendations on cardiovascular risk factor modification (doctoral...