Eight weeks of stretching training reduces aortic wave reflection magnitude and blood pressure in obese postmenopausal women

Journal of Human Hypertension

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 246-250

  Wong, A ^a   Figueroa, A ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

augmentation index; blood pressure; stretching; vascular sympathetic activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; BRACHIAL ANKLE PULSE WAVE VELOCITY; BRACHIAL BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID FEMORAL PULSE WAVE VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ANKLE PULSE WAVE VELOCITY; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; LOW FREQUENCY SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; PARALLEL DESIGN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PULSE WAVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIT REACH SCORE; STRETCHING EXERCISE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AGED; AORTA; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPLICATION; FEMORAL ARTERY; HYPERTENSION; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLYOMETRICS; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PLYOMETRIC EXERCISE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM;

EID: 84896317028     PISSN: 09509240     EISSN: 14765527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jhh.2013.98     Document Type: Article

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