Journal of Advanced Information Technology and Convergence (한국정보기술학회 영문논문지)

Korean Institute of Information Technology (한국정보기술학회)
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A Study on the Assistant Device for the Treatment of Hypertension by Breathing Exercise

  • Kim, Baek-Ki (Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, Gangneung-Wonju National University)
  • Received : 2019.05.31
  • Accepted : 2019.07.25
  • Published : 2019.07.31
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Abstract

Treatment for hypertension is basically done through drug administration, which is likely to suffer a number of side effects. Various non-drug treatments are presented to solve this problem. In this paper, we proposed a treatment method through breathing induction known as an effective method during non-drug treatment. This treatment encourages patients to reduce the number of breaths. By reducing the number of breaths, it can lower the patient's sympathetic nerves and relax the muscles, thereby lowering blood pressure. We presented these breathing algorithms that could reduce the number of breaths on the patient's own without expert help, and we enabled patients to train their own breathing techniques through a device that implements these breathing induction algorithms.

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Acknowledgement

This work (Grants No. C0505516 ) was supported by Business for Cooperative R&D between Industry, Academy, and Research Institute funded Korea Small and Medium Business Administration in 2019.