Key result
Patients with essential hypertension exhibited significantly greater increases in blood pressure, plasma noradrenaline, and plasma adrenaline in response to graded exercise compared to healthy subjects.
Why the study?
Does graded physical exercise elicit different blood pressure and catecholamine responses in patients with essential hypertension compared to healthy subjects?
Population
14 patients with essential hypertension and 8 healthy control subjects (total n=22)
Comparison
Graded physical exercise producing successive… vs Healthy control subjects undergoing the same…
Design
Case-control
Authors
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Exaggerated exercise responses may occur in hypertension; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Case-Control (n=22)
Does graded physical exercise elicit different blood pressure and catecholamine responses in patients with essential hypertension compared to healthy subjects?
Patients with essential hypertension exhibit an exaggerated sympathetic nervous system response to physical exercise compared to normotensive individuals.
Chodakowska et al. (1975) conducted a case-control in Essential hypertension (n=22). Essential hypertension vs. Healthy subjects was evaluated on Blood pressure, plasma catecholamines, and plasma renin activity in response to graded exercise. Patients with essential hypertension exhibited significantly greater increases in blood pressure, plasma noradrenaline, and plasma adrenaline in response to graded exercise compared to healthy subjects.
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