title: [Blood pressure reaction during exertion].
abstract: There are three types of abnormal blood pressure responses during exercise: hypotensive reaction, inadequate rise in blood pressure, and hypertensive reaction. At rest, an abnormal high blood pressure has an adverse prognostic implication. This is not true for a low blood pressure at rest. During exercise, however, the contrary is observed: an inadequate rise or even a fall in blood pressure below resting values indicates a significantly increased risk for cardiac events, whereas a hypertensive reaction in patients with a normal resting blood pressure has no adverse prognostic implications.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Kardiologie, Kantons- und Regionalspital Chur.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dubach
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Goebbels
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ratti
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000503:physiopathology; D007022:Hypotension / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D011379:Prognosis