Key result
Four weeks of isometric handgrip exercise lowers resting blood pressure regardless of age or gender.
Why the study?
Lifestyle factors have contributed to a global increase in hypertension across younger and older age groups, and isometric exercise is a nonpharmacological technique for treating hypertension.
Does isometric handgrip exercise training reduce resting blood pressure in individuals aged 25 to 65 years?
Does isometric handgrip exercise training reduce resting blood pressure in individuals aged 25 to 65 years?
Isometric handgrip exercise training for 4 weeks significantly reduces resting blood pressure regardless of age or gender.
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Isometric handgrip training may lower BP; hypothesis-generating and requires confirmation in RCTs before practice change.
A bstract Background: Lifestyle choices, such as smoking, eating habits, alcohol consumption, and physical inactivity, have contributed to a global increase in hypertension throughout younger and older age groups. Isometric exercise is one of the nonpharmacological techniques for treating hypertension. It is less expensive, simpler, and takes less time. Aim: This study aimed to determine how handgrip isometric exercise training affects resting blood pressure (BP) in people of different ages and genders. Materials and Methods: For the study, 75 participants varying in age from 25 to 65 years were recruited. The study examined things including age, gender, maximum voluntary contraction, and BP. Patients who satisfied the study requirements were recruited and their BP variations (systolic BP [SBP] and diastolic BP [DBP]) were measured with a sphygmomanometer. Statistical Analysis: For normally distributed continuous variables, variables are described as mean and standard deviation. To compare SBP and DBP before and after exercise between weeks 1 and 4, the one-way analysis of variance and post hoc Tukey test were utilized. To investigate differences between males and females, an independent t test was used. A paired t test was performed to compare BP levels before and after activity training in the same group. P value of 0.05 was considered to be significant. Result: The study discovered that 4 weeks of isometric handgrip exercise training resulted in a significant decrease in resting BP. The data also show that the difference in resting BP reductions between different ages is not statistically significant ( P > 0.05), and there is no statistical difference in BP reduction between males and females. Conclusion: After 4 weeks of isometric handgrip exercise training, resting BP (SBP and DBP) decreased substantially. Furthermore, there is no statistically significant difference in resting BP reduction across age groups or genders, according to this study
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Aathira et al. (2024) studied Elevated resting blood pressure (n=75). Isometric handgrip exercise training vs. Baseline (pre-training) was evaluated on Resting blood pressure (systolic and diastolic). Four weeks of isometric handgrip exercise training significantly decreased resting blood pressure in 75 participants, with no significant difference in reduction across age groups (P>0.05) or genders.
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