“…Admittedly, this is speculative, but the answer to this question is unlikely to be known because it would be unethical to withhold medication from diagnosed CKD patients to determine the ‘pure’ effect of exercise training on their blood pressure response. Other researchers have reported reductions in resting blood pressure values following a period of training in medicated hypertensive individuals . However, their resting pre‐intervention SBP readings, even on medication, were higher than ours (134.5 ± 14.6 vs 126.4 ± 17, mmHg) .…”