Key result
A footbath administered before 75-g oral glucose ingestion effectively suppressed the acute increase in leg arterial stiffness and ankle systolic blood pressure compared to no footbath or a footbath after ingestion.
Why the study?
The study investigated the acute effect of a footbath on increases in arterial stiffness after glucose ingestion in healthy young women.
Does an acute footbath before or after glucose ingestion prevent increases in arterial stiffness in healthy young women?
RCT (n=9)
random order
No
Does an acute footbath before or after glucose ingestion prevent increases in arterial stiffness in healthy young women?
Absolute Event Rate: 108.2% vs 120.5%
p-value: p=<0.05
An acute footbath implemented before glucose ingestion effectively suppresses the postprandial increase in leg arterial stiffness in healthy young women.
Footbath before glucose may blunt postprandial leg stiffness rise in young women; leaves open relevance beyond this small healthy cohort.
The present study investigated the acute effect of a footbath on increases in arterial stiffness after glucose ingestion in healthy young women. Nine healthy young women (aged 18.4 ± 0.2 years; mean ± SE) completed three trials in random order. They started a footbath before 75-g oral glucose ingestion, a footbath after 75-g oral glucose ingestion and no footbath (control) trials. Aortic (carotid-femoral) and leg (femoral-ankle) pulse wave velocity, the carotid augmentation index, carotid, brachial and ankle blood pressure, heart rate, blood glucose levels, insulin levels and sublingual temperature were measured before (baseline) and at 15, 30, 60 and 90 min after the 75-g oral glucose ingestion. Aortic pulse wave velocity and brachial systolic blood pressure did not change from baseline to after the 75-g oral glucose ingestion in all trials. Leg pulse wave velocity and ankle systolic blood pressure were increased from baseline to after the 75-g oral glucose ingestion in the footbath after glucose ingestion and control trials, but not in the footbath before glucose ingestion trial. These results suggest that a footbath effectively suppresses the increase in leg arterial stiffness after glucose ingestion when implemented before glucose ingestion.
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Kobayashi et al. (2019) conducted an RCT in Healthy (n=9). Footbath before glucose ingestion vs. No footbath or footbath after glucose ingestion was evaluated on Ankle systolic blood pressure at 15 minutes post-glucose ingestion (p=<0.05). A footbath administered before 75-g oral glucose ingestion effectively suppressed the acute increase in leg arterial stiffness and ankle systolic blood pressure compared to no footbath or a footbath after ingestion.
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