Heart rate recovery after physical exertion tests in elderly hypertensive patients undergoing resistance training

Murillo Jales Lins De Lira,Flávio Emanoel Souza De Melo,Ivan Daniel Bezerra Nogueira,Ingrid Guerra Azevedo,Patrícia Angélica De Miranda Silva Nogueira,Juliana Fernandes De Souza

doi:10.1590/0103-5150.029.001.ao05

Murillo Jales Lins De Lira, Flávio Emanoel Souza De Melo + Show 4 more

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Abstract Introduction: Heart rate recovery after exercise is a valuable variable, associated with prognosis and it has been used as an indicator of cardiorespiratory fitness, especially in patients with heart disease, as hypertensive patients. Objective: This study aimed to analyze the response of heart rate recovery in elderly hypertensive patients undergoing a resistance training program. Methods: Sample was composed for 10 elderly women with a mean age of 70.7 ± 7.4 years. Exercise test and six-minute walk test were developed and we checked heart rate recovery in the 1st and 2nd minute post tests, before and after resistance training. Results: There was an increase in mean heart rate recovery in the analyzed minutes in both tests, but only in the 1st minute after six minutes walk test we found a significant increase (p = 0.02). Conclusion: The results suggest the efficacy of resistance training to improve cardiorespiratory fitness of elderly hypertensive patients.

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Heart rate recovery after exercise is a valuable variable, associated with prognosis and it has been used as an indicator of cardiorespiratory fitness, especially in patients with heart disease, as hypertensive patients
Five of these gave up participating for personal reasons, among them: cataract surgery, unfeasible driving until the training camp and family commitments
The sample consisted of 10 hypertensive patients, mean age 70 years and body mass index (BMI) > 25 kg / m2

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Heart rate recovery after exercise is a valuable variable, associated with prognosis and it has been used as an indicator of cardiorespiratory fitness, especially in patients with heart disease, as hypertensive patients. Objective: This study aimed to analyze the response of heart rate recovery in elderly hypertensive patients undergoing a resistance training program. Conclusion: The results suggest the efficacy of resistance training to improve cardiorespiratory fitness of elderly hypertensive patients. Recent studies have shown that the HRR decrease after exercise is associated with less favorable prognosis in patients monitoring [9]. For this reason, studies have pointed HRR post exercise as a prognostic tool [10]

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