Why the study?
Does physical training alter the balance of vasoactive compounds in skeletal muscle of individuals with essential hypertension?
Population
Individuals with essential hypertension (n=10) and normotensive control subjects (n=12)
Comparison
16 weeks of physical training vs Pre-training baseline and normotensive controls
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
16 weeks
Authors
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Training-associated vasoactive shifts in hypertensive muscle are hypothesis-generating; should not change practice without RCTs.
Does physical training alter the balance of vasoactive compounds in skeletal muscle of individuals with essential hypertension?
16 weeks of physical training improves the balance of vasoactive compounds in skeletal muscle of hypertensive individuals by reducing vasoconstrictors and enhancing exercise-induced vasodilators.
Hansen et al. (2011) studied this question.