Prospective association of occupational and leisure-time physical activity with orthostatic blood pressure changes in older adults

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  Figure 1. Network graph showing dynamics of OH presence before and after 2 years. The black horizontal arrow denotes the timeline. Blue dots denote the subgroup of subjects with OH present, and red dots denote the subgroup without OH. The size of the dots is proportional to the number of subjects in a specific category. Orange, directed arrows show change in time (baseline vs after 2 years) in the number of subjects in specific categories. The width of the orange arrows is proportional to the numbers on the orange arrows which denote the number of subjects that moved from a particular category after 2 years in comparison to the baseline. Missing data (n = 2 before and n = 1 after 2 years) is not shown to increase clarity of the figure.

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  Figure 2. Blood pressure response to Active Stand (AS) test in older adults with and without a history of occupation-related physical activity (PA). The red, solid line indicates participants with occupational-related PA. The blue, dashed line represents participants without occupational-related PA. p < 0.0001 is denoted as "***", p < 0.001 as "**", p < 0.01 as "*".

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  Figure 3. Blood pressure response to Active Stand (AS) test in older adults with and without a history of leisure-time physical exercise (PE). The red, solid line indicates participants with leisure-time PE. The blue, dashed line represents participants without leisure-time PE.

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  Figure 4. Mixed linear models predicting blood pressure changes. Dynamics of response of sBP on the AS test before vs after 2 years during (a) 1st and (b) 3rd min; change in response of dBP on the AS test before vs after 2 years during (c) 1st and (d) 3rd min; and change in response of mBP on the AS test before vs after 2 years during (e) 1st and (f) 3rd min. The “0” on the horizontal axis denotes no changes in the response of blood pressure on the AS test within 2 years (denoted by a vertical dashed line). Predictors with negative and positive estimates are placed on the left side and right side of the dashed line, respectively. Negative estimates are likely indicating a less favorable response on the AS test (i.e. decrease in blood pressure). Red and blue horizontal lines illustrate predictors in which both confidence interval values are lower and higher than 0, respectively. Orange dots and horizontal lines illustrate predictors in which confidence interval values of estimates cross zero. Blue and red dots denote estimates with positive and negative values. Results of presented models examining relationship between change of response of blood pressure (BP) on Active Standing (AS test…