[Prognostic significance of exercise-induced hypertension].
The significance of exercise-induced hypertensive blood pressure values is poorly known. The present study has looked for a correlation between hypertensive systolic blood pressure values on exercise in a normotensive population and later development of hypertension at rest. After elimination of patients with hypertension at rest and of patients lost to the follow-up, this study includes 74 normotensive subjects who had developed exertional hypertension (blood pressure superior to 220/95 mmHg) during exercise testing. At the end of an average follow-up of six years, 40.5% of these patients are showing hypertension at rest. Thus hypertensive blood pressure values on exercise in a normotensive subject is an important finding. It should lead to an adaptation of diet and life style and to regular blood pressure controls.
Bonhôte
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Service de cardiologie, Hôpital de la Tour, Meyrin, Genève.
Bloch
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D000368:Aged; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012146:Rest / Q000502:physiology
Signification pronostique de l'hypertension à l'effort.