- Exercise hypertension
Exercise hypertension is an excessive rise in
blood pressure during exercise. Many of those with exercisehypertension have spikes insystolic pressure to 250 mmHg or greater.A rise in systolic blood pressure to over 200 mmHg when exercising at 100 W is pathological, and a rise in pressure over 220 mmHg needs to be controlled by the appropriate drugs.cite journal
first = D.
last = Klaus
year = 1989
month = February
title = Management of Hypertension in Actively Exercising Patients: Implications for Drug Selection.
journal = Drugs
volume = 37
issue = 2
pages = 212–218 ]Similarly, in healthy individuals the response of the
diastolic pressure to 'dynamic' exercise (e.g. walking, running) of moderate intensity is to remain constant or to fall slightly (due to the improved blood flow), but in some individuals a rise of 10 mmHg or greater is found.Recent work at Johns Hopkins involving a group of athletes aged 55 to 75 with mild hypertension has found a correlation of those with exercise hypertension to a reduced ability of the major blood vessels to change in size in response to increased blood flow (probably due to impaired function of the endothelial cells in the vessel walls). This is to be differentiated from stiffness of the blood-vessel walls, which was not found to be correlated with the effect.cite journal
first = Kerry
last = Stewart
coauthors = et al
year = 2004
month = April
title = Exaggerated Exercise Blood Pressure is Related to Impaired Endothelial Vasodilatory Function
journal = Am. J. Hypertension
volume = 17
issue = 4
pages = 314–320
doi = 10.1016/S0895-7061(03)01003-3 ]References
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