[Studies of the circulation in patients with essential hypertension during the 1st and 2nd standard exercises of autogenic training].

A group of ten hypertensive patients were examined as to their circulation at rest, before, and during, the first and second standard exercises of autogenic training. During the exercise there was a significant reduction in cardiac time volume. The expected simultaneous decrease in the total peripheral resistance could not be demonstrated by our methods. Its apparent rise is interpreted as a result of its dependence on the heart beat volume, but can also be understood as an abnormal reaction of a pathological functional state. To clarify this further it would be necessary to establish an isolated determination of that circulatory parameter. It could be shown that the minute-volume component of hypertension can be affected by autogenous training.