Acute Effect of Static Stretching Exercise on Arterial Stiffness in Healthy Young Adults

Yamato, Yosuke; Hasegawa, Natsuki; Sato, Koji; Hamaoka, Toshiyuki; Ogoh, Shigehiko; Iemitsu, Motoyuki

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“…24) . Yamato et al reported that acute static stretching for 40 min reduced baPWV, whereas the stretching did not change cfPWV 25) . As summarized in Table 1, findings regarding the effects of stretching or yoga on arterial stiffness are complicated.…”

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Human flexibility and arterial stiffness

Yamamoto

2017

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Most Japanese people have had their flexibility tested in childhood physical education classes. Recent studies may provide a retrospective answer as to why those measurements may be important. Flexibility is one of the components of physical fitness along with cardiorespiratory fitness and muscular strength. Although flexibility was originally assumed to correlate with other aspects of physical fitness, recent studies demonstrate that a less flexible body indicates arterial stiffening. Arterial stiffness has been identified as an independent risk factor for mortality and cardiovascular disorders. Therefore, there is a possibility that flexibility is a novel fitness indicator related to cardiovascular disease, which can be easily evaluated over all ages and in any area (e.g., medical check-up). Now, flexibility may no longer be simply viewed as important just for optimizing functional movement in daily life and/or reducing the risk of injury. This article reviews the recent findings on the relationship between flexibility and arterial stiffness, emphasizing "flexibility and arterial stiffness", "genetics and flexibility", "stretching and arterial stiffness", and "flexibility and blood pressure".

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Human flexibility and arterial stiffness

Yamamoto

2017

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“…Recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses found that an increase in PWV of 1 m/s corresponds to a >10% increase in risk for cardiovascular events or mortality ( Vlachopoulos et al, 2010 ), and thus a reduction in arterial stiffness is considered of paramount importance. Many previous studies have demonstrated that both acute and chronic vascular responses to exercise are probably relevant ( Kingwell et al, 1997 ; Kakiyama et al, 2005 ; Nishiwaki et al, 2015 ; Yamato et al, 2016 ). Thus, our results raise the possibility that repeated acute reductions in arterial stiffness and its accumulation would induce persistent reductions in arterial stiffness.…”

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Dose of Alcohol From Beer Required for Acute Reduction in Arterial Stiffness

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Acute beer or alcohol ingestion reduces arterial stiffness, but the dose required to reduce arterial stiffness is unclear. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the acute effects of ingesting various amounts of beer on arterial stiffness in healthy men. Nine men (20–22 years) participated, in eight trials in random order on different days. The participants each consumed 25, 50, 100, or 200 mL of alcohol-free beer (AFB25, AFB50, AFB100, and AFB200) or regular beer (B25, B50, B100, and B200), and were monitored for 60 min thereafter. Arterial stiffness did not significantly change among all AFB and B25. However, B50, B100, and B200 caused a significant decrease in arterial stiffness for approximately 30–60 min: heart-brachial pulse wave velocity (B50: −4.5 ± 2.4%; B100: −3.4 ± 1.3%; B200: −8.1 ± 2.6%); brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (B50: −0.6 ± 2.0%; B100: −3.3 ± 1.1%; B200: −9.3 ± 3.0%); heart-ankle pulse wave velocity (B50: −3.7 ± 0.3%; B100: −3.3 ± 0.9%; B200: −8.1 ± 2.7%); and cardio-ankle vascular index (B50: −4.6 ± 1.3%; B100: −5.6 ± 0.8%; B200: −10.3 ± 3.1%). Positive control alcoholic beverages reduced arterial stiffness, and these reductions did not significantly differ regardless of the type of beverage. Our data show that consuming about 50 mL of beer can start to reduce arterial stiffness, and that the reduced arterial stiffness is mainly attributable to the alcohol in beer.

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“…Moreover, high flexibility can be achieved through stretching or yoga, which need not be cardiorespiratory fitness-enhancing exercise (e.g., aerobic exercise), and therefore may be a practical and achievable preventive strategy in older people. Studies have indicated that acute (Yamato et al, 2016) and chronic stretching exercise (Cortez-Cooper et al, 2008; Nishiwaki et al, 2015) and yoga (Patel and North, 1975; Patil et al, 2015) significantly increased arterial compliance and reduced arterial stiffness and blood pressure. Additional research is needed to determine whether these practices may represent a new preventive and/or treatment strategy for age-related arterial stiffening.…”

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Greater Progression of Age-Related Aortic Stiffening in Adults with Poor Trunk Flexibility: A 5-Year Longitudinal Study

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Purpose: Having a low level of physical fitness, especially cardiorespiratory fitness, appears to accelerate age-related aortic stiffening. Whereas, some studies have reported that trunk flexibility is a component of physical fitness, it is also negatively associated with arterial stiffening independent of cardiorespiratory fitness in cross-sectional studies. However, no long-term longitudinal study has determined whether poor trunk flexibility accelerates the progression of age-related aortic stiffening. We examined trunk flexibility and aortic stiffness progression in a 5-year longitudinal study.Methods and Results: A total of 305 apparently healthy men and women participated in this study (49.6 ± 9.5 years of age). Trunk flexibility was measured using a sit-and-reach test. Aortic stiffness was assessed using carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) at baseline and after 5 years. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to assess the association of the annual rate of cfPWV across flexibility levels (low, middle, high). There were no significant differences in baseline cfPWV among the three groups (835 ± 164, 853 ± 140, 855 ± 2.68 cm/s; P = 0.577). Annual ΔcfPWV was significantly higher in the low-flexibility group than in the high-flexibility group (P = 0.009). ANCOVA revealed an inverse relationship between flexibility level and annual ΔcfPWV (14.41 ± 2.73, 9.79 ± 2.59, 2.62 ± 2.68 cm/s/year; P for trend = 0.011). Multiple regression analysis revealed that baseline sit and reach (β = −0.12, −0.70 to −0.01) was independently correlated with ΔcfPWV following adjustment for baseline peak oxygen uptake, age, sex, body fat, heart rate, and cfPWV. The 5-year change in cfPWV was not significantly correlated with 5-year change in sit-and-reach performance (P = 0.859).Conclusion: Poor trunk flexibility is associated with greater progression of age-related aortic stiffening in healthy adults. However, we failed to confirm a significant association between 5-year change in aortic stiffness and 5-year change in trunk flexibility. The association between increased age-related increase in aortic stiffness and deterioration in flexibility due to age may require observation for more than 5 years.

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Acute Effect of Static Stretching Exercise on Arterial Stiffness in Healthy Young Adults

Abstract: These results suggest that chronic and sufficient repetition of muscle stretch stimulation may result in chronic high arterial compliance, although a single bout of stretch exercise acutely affects arterial compliance.

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Human flexibility and arterial stiffness

Human flexibility and arterial stiffness

Dose of Alcohol From Beer Required for Acute Reduction in Arterial Stiffness

Greater Progression of Age-Related Aortic Stiffening in Adults with Poor Trunk Flexibility: A 5-Year Longitudinal Study

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