The Effect of Exercise on the Older Adult’s Blood Pressure Suffering Hypertension: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on Clinical Trial Studies

Table 3

Subgroup analysis based on type of exercise.

Type of exercise		Number of articles	Sample size	I^2	Egger test	Std. difference in mean (before and after intervention)
Aerobic exercise	Systolic blood pressure	48	1734	94.4	0.715	0.69 ± 0.16
	Diastolic blood pressure			89.5	0.178	0.64 ± 0.11
Resistance exercises	Systolic blood pressure	20	494	54.6	0.051	0.69 ± 0.1
	Diastolic blood pressure			82.8	0.053	0.73 ± 0.16