Conclusions
In conclusion, yoga has been found to decrease blood
pressure25 as well as levels of oxidative stress in patients
with hypertension. The new therapeutic approaches in the
treatment of hypertension are aimed at reducing the generation
of ROS and methods for increasing antioxidant capacity.
Yoga can also be considered an alternative or additive
therapeutic intervention in subjects with specific genetic
polymorphism of the GST gene, along with pharmaceuticals
for achieving this goal. Further studies with large sample
sizes to identify the role of specific oxidative stress-related
gene polymorphism, their gene expression profiles in hypertension,
and involvement of other environmental factors
are clearly needed.