Eight weeks of stretching training reduces aortic wave reflection magnitude and blood pressure in obese postmenopausal women.
Wong A, Figueroa A.
Source: Department of Nutrition, Food, and Exercise Sciences, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
Abstract
The augmentation index (AIx, a marker of wave reflection) is reduced and peripheral artery vasodilation increased following acute stretching exercise.
We examined the effects of stretching training (ST) on arterial function, blood pressure (BP) and sympathetic vasomotor modulation.
Twenty-eight obese postmenopausal women (57±1 years) were randomized to a ST (n=14) or no-exercise control (CON) group ( n=14).
ST included stretching exercises 3 days week-1 for 8 weeks.
There were significant decreases in bSBP (P<0.05), aSBP (P<0.01), aDBP (P<0.05), aMAP (P<0.01), aAIx (P<0.05) and LFSBP (P<0.05) after ST compared with CON. SRS significantly (P<0.01) increased after ST but not after CON.
There were no significant effects (P>0.05) on HR, baPWV, aPWV and faPWV after ST or CON.
Eight weeks of ST decreases BP, AIx and LFSBP in obese postmenopausal women.
Our findings show that ST reduces peripheral and central BP, wave reflection magnitude and vascular sympathetic activity in obese postmenopausal women with prehypertension and hypertension.
Journal of Human Hypertension advance online publication, 17 October 2013; doi:10.1038/jhh.2013.98.
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