Daily aerobic exercise improves reactive hyperemia in patients with essential hypertension
Daily aerobic exercise improves reactive hyperemia in patients with essential hypertension
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DOI:
10.1161/01.hyp.33.1.591
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发表时间:
1999-01-01
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影响因子:
8.3
通讯作者:
Oshima, T
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作者:
Higashi, Y;Sasaki, S;Oshima, T
The effects of long-term aerobic exercise on endothelial function in patients with essential hypertension remain unclear, To determine whether endothelial function relating to forearm hemodynamics in these patients differs from normotensive subjects and whether endothelial function can be modified by continued physical exercise, we randomized patients with essential hypertension into a group that engaged in 30 minutes of brisk walking 5 to 7 times weekly for 12 weeks (n=20) or a group that underwent no activity modifications (control group, n=7). Forearm blood flow was measured using strain-gauge plethysmography during reactive hyperemia to test for endothelium-dependent vasodilation and after sublingual nitroglycerin administration to test endothelium-independent vasodilation. Forearm blood flow in hypertensive patients during reactive hyperemia was significantly less than that in normotensive subjects (n=17). Increases in forearm blood flow after nitroglycerin were similar between hypertensive and normotensive subjects. Exercise lowered mean blood pressure from 115.7+/-5.3 to 110.2+/-5.1 mmHg (P