Effects of Repeated Kurort Health Walking on Blood Pressure and Mental Health.

Background: The German word "kurort" means cure (kur) and area (ort), whereby a patient's health improves through walking in areas full of nature. A single session of kurort health walking (kurort) decreased high blood pressure and improved mental health. However, its continuing effect with repeat sessions remains unclear.

Health Walking Preferentially Decreases Higher Blood Pressure and Improves Mood.

is a German term from the words (cure) and (area), and refers to improvements in patients' health in areas full of nature. We investigated the effect of health walking in the 2 urban-style health walking courses opened in Gifu City on systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), heart rate, and mood. The subjects were 454 people (136 males, 318 females; mean [±SD] age 61.