Why the study?
Does sports training for 8 hours a week reduce resting blood pressure in untreated hypertensive patients compared to normotensive controls?
Population
463 participants, comprising 69 untreated hypertensive patients and 394 normotensive controls.
Comparison
Various sports training lessons for 8 hours a… vs Normotensive controls who also enrolled in…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
12 months
Authors
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May support exercise in untreated hypertensives; hypothesis-generating for differential responses versus normotensives pending RCTs.
Does sports training for 8 hours a week reduce resting blood pressure in untreated hypertensive patients compared to normotensive controls?
Sports training significantly lowers blood pressure and improves insulin resistance in untreated hypertensive young adults, but has no significant blood pressure-lowering effect in normotensives.
Chen et al. (2010) studied this question.
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