Lower your blood pressure with dance: a study on the effectiveness of at-home dance exercise for hypertensive patients

Dance your way to lower blood pressure: a randomized controlled trial on the efficacy of unsupervised dance exercise for hypertensive patients

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN13941002

Enrollment

Registered

2024-09-13

Start date

2023-04-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-10-27

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Hypertension Circulatory System

Interventions

A random number table was created in Excel, and the intervention and control groups were divided based on whether the number was greater than or less than 0.5. Hypertensive patients were randomly assi

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Outpatients with high blood pressure from the Juntendo University Department of General Medicine

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients with complications rendering them unsuitable for exercise, such as cardiovascular disease and cerebral vascular disease 2. Patients on newly prescribed antihypertensive drugs or who were administered anti-hypertensives later 3. Unable to balance on one leg

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Blood pressure measured using HBP-9035 KENTARO™ (OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.,Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan) at baseline and after 2 months	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Body weight and muscle mass measured using multi-frequency body composition analyzer MC-780A (Tanita Corporation, Itabashi City, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan) at baseline and after 2 months	—

Countries

Japan

Contacts

Public ContactTaiju;Mizuki Miyagami;Sakairi

;

tmiyaga@juntendo.ac.jp;m-sakairi@juntendo.ac.jp+81 (0)38133111;+81 (0)38133111

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026