Blood pressure recovery curves after submaximal exercise. A predictor of hypertension at ten-year follow-up.
The purpose of this study is to examine the usefulness of blood pressure recovery curves after submaximal exercise in apparently normotensive young adults as an early predictor for hypertension. Twenty-six college age males in 1977, with normal blood pressures at rest, were given the Harvard Step Test and postexercise blood pressures were recorded. Criteria were set that differentiated a hypertensive from a normotensive response to exercise. In 1987, these individuals were contacted regarding their blood pressure status. Nine out of ten subjects who demonstrated a hypertensive response to exercise in 1977, now have been given the diagnosis of hypertension. Eleven out of twelve subjects who demonstrated a normotensive response to exercise in 1977, now are still considered to be normotensive. A proposed hypothesis is that during the course of this disease, exercise can unmask hypertension in subjects who have the potential for developing hypertension but currently have a normal resting blood pressure.
Tanji
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Department of Family Practice, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento 95817.
Champlin
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Wong
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Lew
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Brown
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Amsterdam
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D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure; D015444:Exercise; D005080:Exercise Test; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D013997:Time Factors