Blood Pressure Reactivity After Resistance Exercise in Older Women

University of Brasilia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Resistance Exercise Pressor and Neural Responses in Older Women

Treatments: Other: Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03002714

307630/2013-7

487622/2012-0

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine and compare the effects of two sessions of resistance exercise in blood pressure reactivity to a mental stress test in older hypertensive women.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 60 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:older hypertensive women -

Exclusion Criteria:subjects taking hormonal therapy; those with a history of metabolic, neurologic, or cardiovascular diseases other than HTN, those with a history of cardiovascular events; subjects with physical limitations; those with non-treated HTN; obesity (BMI ≥ 30.0); and subjects taking adrenergic inhibitors or non-dihydropyridinic calcium channel blockers.

Trial design

10 participants in 1 patient group

Exercise

Experimental group

Description:

Performance of two resistance exercise sessions

Treatment:

Other: Exercise