title: Exercise for Hypertension: A Prescription Update Integrating Existing Recommendations with Emerging Research.
abstract: Hypertension is the most common, costly, and preventable cardiovascular disease risk factor. Numerous professional organizations and committees recommend exercise as initial lifestyle therapy to prevent, treat, and control hypertension. Yet, these recommendations differ in the components of the Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type (FITT) principle of exercise prescription (Ex Rx); the evidence upon which they are based is only of fair methodological quality; and the individual studies upon which they are based generally do not include people with hypertension, which are some of the limitations in this literature. The purposes of this review are to (1) overview the professional exercise recommendations for hypertension in terms of the FITT principle of Ex Rx; (2) discuss new and emerging research related to Ex Rx for hypertension; and (3) present an updated FITT Ex Rx for adults with hypertension that integrates the existing recommendations with this new and emerging research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Kinesiology, College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources, University of Connecticut, 2095 Hillside Rd, U-1110, Storrs, CT, 06269-1110, USA. Linda.Pescatello@uconn.edu.
authors.forename: Linda S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Pescatello
authors.affiliation: Department of Kinesiology, College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources, University of Connecticut, 2095 Hillside Rd, U-1110, Storrs, CT, 06269-1110, USA. Hayley.MacDonald@uconn.edu.
authors.forename: Hayley V
authors.initials: HV
authors.lastname: MacDonald
authors.affiliation: Department of Kinesiology, College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources, University of Connecticut, 2095 Hillside Rd, U-1110, Storrs, CT, 06269-1110, USA. Lauren.Lamberti@uconn.edu.
authors.forename: Lauren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lamberti
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut, 406 Babbidge Rd, U-1020, Storrs, CT, 06269-1020, USA. blair.t.johnson@chip.uconn.edu.
authors.forename: Blair T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure; D018450:Disease Progression; D015444:Exercise; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Aerobic exercise; Blood pressure; Concurrent exercise; Postexercise hypotension; Prehypertension; Resistance exercise