Sex differences in post-exercise hypotension after a beach tennis session in middle-aged adults with hypertension: a randomized crossover clinical trial
- Conditions
- Essential (primary) hypertension
- Registration Number
- RBR-9nm4zs9
- Lead Sponsor
- Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Men and women; Aged 35 to 65 years; medically diagnosed with hypertension; using up to two antihypertensive medications; willing to participate and sign the informed consent forms; office blood pressure between 130-179 and 80-110 mmHg
Diseases that limit the performance of physical exercises, such as lung disease, valvular heart disease, and renal failure; underlying cardiovascular disease previously diagnosed by a physician, occurring in the last 24 months, such as acute myocardial infarction, angina or stroke, or heart failure; diseases that reduce life expectancy; regular physical activity practitioners (i.e., 3 or more sessions per week of high intensity exercise moderate or vigorous); body mass index greater than 39.9 kg/m²; diabetic proliferative retinopathy
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method It is expected to find an improvement in systolic and diastolic blood pressure after the beach tennis session, and that this response would be different between the sexes after the sessions.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method o secondary outcomes are expected