Acute aerobic exercise reduces 24-h ambulatory blood pressure levels in long-term-treated hypertensive patients
BACKGROUND: Even with anti-hypertensive therapy, it is difficult to maintain optimal systemic blood pressure values in hypertensive patients. Exercise may reduce blood pressure in untreated hypertensive, but its effect when combined with long-term anti-hypertensive therapy remains unclear. Our purpo...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Faculdade de Medicina / USP
2008-01-01
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Series: | Clinics |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1807-59322008000600008 |