Arterial stiffness and blood flow adaptations following eight weeks of resistance exercise training in young and older women

Whole-body vibration training decreases ankle systolic blood pressure and leg arterial stiffness in obese postmenopausal women with high blood pressure

“…Our study demonstrated that WBV training reduced aortic SBP by approximately 11 mm Hg in both groups, suggesting that the reduction in ankle SBP did not directly influence the decrease in left ventricular afterload. 12,24,28,29 These findings seem to indicate that exercise training provides greater vascular improvements in overweight or obese and prehypertensive or hypertensive adults. 34 We recently demonstrated decreases in aortic SBP, augmentation index, and myocardial oxygen demand after 6 weeks of WBV training in postmenopausal women with prehypertension and hypertension.…”

“…resulted in no changes in legPWV and aortic PWV in middleaged women 24,28,29 and young adults. WBV training is a strength exercise modality as it has increased muscle strength and muscle mass in postmenopausal women.…”

“…Vibration intensity was progressively increased in frequency (25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40) and amplitude (1-2 mm). Exercises included unloaded dynamic and static squats with a 90-and 120-knee angle (considering 180-as full knee extension), wide-stand semisquats, and calf raises.…”

Effects of age on arterial stiffness and central blood pressure after an acute bout of resistance exercise

“…In middle-aged adults, resistance training studies have shown both an increase and no change in carotid arterial stiffness (Collier et al 2008;Cortez-Cooper et al 2008). In older adults, studies have found no change in carotid-femoral PWV (Rossow et al 2014) or a decrease in brachial-ankle PWV (Okamoto et al 2009) or augmentation index (Williams et al 2013). With regard to blood pressure, one meta-analysis reported that resistance exercise may decrease brachial systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressures (DBP) (Cornelissen et al 2011).…”

Efeito de duas diferentes frequências semanais de treinamento com pesos sobre a força muscular e pressão arterial em mulheres idosas normotensas

“…The literature presents conflicting results regarding the effect of RT on BP. Previous studies have reported increases 17 , decreases [18][19][20][21][22][23] or did not find [24][25][26][27] changes in rest BP in different training protocols and populations. Divergences of results seem to be related to the characteristics of samples studied, mainly in relation to pre-experiment BP values.…”