Abstract
Sex and exercise-mode differences in post-exercise blood pressure and heart rate variability responses during a workday
Highlights
Exercise is an important non-pharmacological therapy for cardiovascular risk prevention and treatment
Greater values of SBP, diastolic BP (DBP), Body mass, Height, Waist-Hip Ratio and 1RM workload for all exercises were observed in men (P
DBP area under the curve (AUC) were lower in AE than control session (CON) in office and general periods (Figures 3a and 3b)
Summary
Exercise is an important non-pharmacological therapy for cardiovascular risk prevention and treatment. Some recent studies have demonstrated that a single session of exercise is able to promote several cardiovascular benefits, among them a transient reduction in BP which can persist for up to 24 hours 5,6, otherwise known as post-exercise hypotension (PEH). PEH has been shown to occur either after aerobic (AE) 5,7,8 or resistance exercises (RE) sessions , 9–12 men and women , 7,8,13–16 normotensive 12,17,18 and hypertensive 5,9,11 and in young 13–15,17 and old adults . 5,10,11 Regarding its clinical relevance, PEH is an important adjuvant in BP control of hypertensive , 19,20 and a strategy for prevention of hypertension in normotensives 21. There are indications that the BP reduction occurring after a single session of exercise is positively associated with the chronic BP reduction achieved after a period of physical training 22. Despite all of these implications, PEH magnitude and duration have been shown to be highly variable, with some studies reporting magnitudes of reductions between 0-20 mmHg , 9,10,17 and durations between 1-24h . 5,9,10,18
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