Sprint interval and traditional endurance training induce similar improvements in peripheral arterial stiffness and flow-mediated dilation in healthy humans

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 295, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Rakobowchuk, Mark ^a   Tanguay, Sophie ^a   Burgomaster, Kirsten A ^a   Howarth, Krista R ^a   Gibala, Martin J ^a   MacDonald, Maureen J ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arterial compliance; High intensity exercise; Intimal media thickness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ARTERY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; ARTERIES; BLOOD PRESSURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RUNNING; VASODILATION;

EID: 50649108819     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00069.2008     Document Type: Article

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