Key result
Isometric handgrip exercise training for 8 weeks significantly reduced resting systolic blood pressure from baseline in both normal weight (111.1 to 103.8 mmHg) and overweight (113.0 to 106.0 mmHg) young adults.
Why the study?
Isometric handgrip training is accessible and could serve as a valuable therapeutic adjunct for treating hypertension, but its cardiovascular effects needed evaluation in normal weight and overweight individuals.
Does isometric handgrip exercise training reduce resting blood pressure and heart rate in normal weight and overweight young Indian adults?
Does isometric handgrip exercise training reduce resting blood pressure and heart rate in normal weight and overweight young Indian adults?
Absolute Event Rate: 103.8% vs 111.13%
p-value: p=<0.001
Isometric handgrip exercise training for 8 weeks significantly reduces resting blood pressure and heart rate in both normal weight and overweight young adults, offering a simple, accessible adjunct for cardiovascular risk reduction.
May support isometric handgrip as adjunct for SBP reduction in young adults; hypothesis-generating, needs RCTs before practice change.
Background: For individuals with cardiovascular risk factors, even small reductions in systolic and diastolic blood pressure with maintenance of normal body weight can translate into significant reductions in morbidity and mortality. Isometric exercise training, and in particular isometric handgrip training, which is easily applicable (i.e. easy to use and can be performed anytime and anywhere), in expensive and hence accessible to the global population could offer a valuable new therapeutic adjunct in the overall approach for treating hypertension. Aim and objective: To evaluate the effect of isometric hand grip exercise on SBP, DBP, MAP and HR in normal weight and overweight population Methodology: A prospective study was carried out to evaluate the effect of isometric hand grip exercise on cardiovascular responses in Indian population aged 18-35 years according to their BMI. In this study, an intervention was done in the form of isometric exercise, where we studied the effect of Isometric handgrip exercise on cardiovascular responses in normal weight and overweight adults. Cardiovascular responses were measured in terms of SBP, DBP, MAP and HR upto 8 weeks after intervention. Data was analysed with appropriate statistical tests. Results and discussion: In our study we have observed that IHG training over 8 weeks in normal and overweight individual certainly have result in significant changes in cardiovascular responses. The results showed significant changes in the form of reduction in resting SBP, DBP, HR, and MAP pre and post IHG training over more than 4 weeks.
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Shefali Adhikari (2020) studied Normal weight and overweight (n=60). Isometric handgrip exercise vs. Baseline (pre-intervention) was evaluated on Resting systolic blood pressure at 8 weeks in normal weight individuals (p=<0.001). Isometric handgrip exercise training for 8 weeks significantly reduced resting systolic blood pressure from baseline in both normal weight (111.1 to 103.8 mmHg) and overweight (113.0 to 106.0 mmHg) young adults.
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