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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Main Authors: Emmanuel G. Ciolac, Guilherme V. Guimarães, Veridiana M. D´Ávila, Luiz A. Bortolotto, Egídio L. Doria, Edimar A. Bocchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculdade de Medicina / USP 2008-01-01
Series:Clinics
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1807-59322008000600008