Why the study?
Does isometric handgrip training lower resting blood pressure and attenuate cardiovascular reactivity in hypertensives?
Population
24 hypertensives, age 51-74 years
Comparison
Isometric handgrip (IHG) training for 10 weeks vs Control group for 10 weeks
Design
Other
Follow-up
10 weeks
Authors
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May support IHG training for BP reduction in hypertensives; hypothesis-generating for reactivity as response predictor.
Does isometric handgrip training lower resting blood pressure and attenuate cardiovascular reactivity in hypertensives?
Isometric handgrip training effectively lowers resting blood pressure in hypertensives, and baseline cardiovascular reactivity to stress tasks can predict the magnitude of this hypotensive response.
Badrov et al. (2013) studied this question.
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