Fundação de Apoio a Pesquisa e à Inovação Tecnológica do Estado de Sergipe - FAPITEC/SE / Physical exercise acts positively against the related risk factors for systemic arterial hypertension, a chronic and non-communicable disease that affects, approximately, 30% of the world population. Even though there are numerous studies that investigated the physiological responses of the exercise in this population, studying the "dose response" of its fractionation throughout the day becomes necessary, allowing new prescription possibilities. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate ambulatory blood pressure kinetics after a fractionation of concurrent exercise session, as well as the nitric oxide bioavailability in hypertensive middle-aged women. In this way, eleven hypertensive middle-aged women (57.45 ±5.13 years) voluntarily participated of this study and underwent three experimental sessions and one control day (CS). In the morning (MS) and night (NS) sessions, the exercise was fully paid up in the morning and evening, respectively. In fractionized session (FS), it held 50% of the volume in the morning and the remaining 50% on the night shift. It was found that the MS provided greater decay and lower blood pressure reactivity (p<0.05) for systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) 1h post-exercise, when compared to CS. The MS was also more effective in post-exercise hypotension for SBP than NS and FS, and promoted greater attenuation to pressure reactivity (p<0.05) than the other sessions. By analyzing the ambulatory blood pressure kinetic following the exercise, it was shown that the FS promoted lowest area under the blood pressure curve (p<0.05) for the SBP, DBP and MAP during sleep, as well as greater nitric oxide bioavailability (p<0.05) than the other sessions. In this sense, it is concluded that the FS was more effective in lower BP values at 24 hours following the exercise that other sessions, although this reduction has not been observed acutely, as observed after MS. / O exercício físico pode atuar positivamente contra os agravos correlatos à hipertensão arterial sistêmica, doença crônica e não-transmissível que incide aproximadamente 30% da população mundial. Embora existam evidências suficientes sobre as respostas fisiológicas do exercício físico nesta população, estudar a dose-resposta do seu fracionamento ao longo do dia se faz necessária, permitindo novas possibilidades para a prescrição do exercício físico. Assim, o objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar as respostas pressóricas, em até 24h, após o fracionamento de uma sessão de exercício concorrente, bem como a biodisponibilidade do óxido nítrico em mulheres hipertensas. Para tanto, participaram do presente estudo 11 mulheres hipertensas de meia-idade (57,45 ±5,13 anos) submetidas a 3 sessões experimentais e um dia controle (SC). Nas sessões manhã (SM) e noite (SN), o exercício foi realizado integralmente pela manhã e pela noite, respectivamente. Na sessão fracionada (SF), realizou-se 50% do volume pela manhã e os demais 50% no turno da noite. Verificou-se que a SM proporcionou maior decaimento e menor reatividade pressórica (p<0,05) para a pressão arterial sistólica (PAS) e para pressão arterial diastólica (PAD) 1h após o exercício, quando comparada à SC. A SM também foi mais eficiente em promover hipotensão pós-exercício para a PAS que a SN e a SF, além de promover maior atenuação à reatividade pressórica (p<0,05) que as demais sessões. Ao analisar a cinética pressórica nas 24h subsequentes ao exercício, foi evidenciado que a SF promoveu menor área abaixo da curva pressórica (p<0,05) para a PAS, PAD e PAM no período do sono, além de maior biodisponibilidade (p<0,05) do óxido nítrico que as demais sessões. Neste sentido conclui-se que que a SF foi mais eficaz em promover reduções pressóricas nas 24h subsequentes à prática de exercício físico que as demais sessões, ainda que esta redução não tenha sido evidenciada no período de 1h pós-exercício, como observada após a SM.

Yes / This study investigated the relationship of ethnicity to the differences between blood pressure (BP) measured in a clinic setting and by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in individuals with a previous diagnosis of hypertension (HT) and without a previous diagnosis of hypertension (NHT). A cross-sectional comparison of BP measurement was performed in 770 participants (white British (WB, 39%), South Asian (SA, 31%), and African Caribbean (AC, 30%)) in 28 primary care clinics in West Midlands, United Kingdom. Mean differences between daytime ABPM, standardized clinic (mean of 3 occasions), casual clinic (first reading on first occasion), and last routine BP taken at the general practitioner practice were compared in HT and NHT individuals. Daytime systolic and diastolic ABPM readings were similar to standardized clinic BP (systolic: 128 (SE 0.9) vs. 125 (SE 0.9) mm Hg (NHT) and 132 (SE 0.7) vs. 131 (SE 0.7) mm Hg (HT)) and were not associated with ethnicity to a clinically important extent. When BP was taken less carefully, differences emerged: casual clinic readings were higher than ABPM, particularly in the HT group where the systolic differences approached clinical relevance (131 (SE 1.2) vs. 129 (SE 1.0) mm Hg (NHT) and 139 (SE 0.9) vs. 133 (SE 0.7) mm Hg (HT)) and were larger in SA and AC hypertensive individuals (136 (SE 1.5) vs. 133 (SE 1.2) mm Hg (WB), 141 (SE 1.7) vs. 133 (SE 1.4) mm Hg (SA), and 142 (SE 1.6) vs. 134 (SE 1.3) mm Hg (AC); mean differences: 3 (0-7), P = 0.03 and 4 (1-7), P = 0.01, respectively). Differences were also observed for the last practice reading in SA and ACs. BP differences between ethnic groups where BP is carefully measured on multiple occasions are small and unlikely to alter clinical management. When BP is measured casually on a single occasion or in routine care, differences appear that could approach clinical relevance.

Hypertension is a global disease that many effected people in developing countries is not aware of. Hypertension is linked with cardiovascular disease. Prehypertension is not a disease but if not correctly treated, it could develop into hypertension. The aim of the study was to investigate if there are any differences in circadian blood pressure between two study groups, one group with normal blood pressure and one group with prehypertension. This study was a explorative study and its design is based on measurements of blood pressure values and a questionnaire was used to help get the data collection. 51 students volunteered to have their blood pressure taken from them and out of these 51, 24 where selected into two groups of 12 each for the Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. hese 24 students would be a part of our study and an ambulatory (Schiller-102 plus) blood pressure monitor was used to collect the data. The prevalence of prehypertension findings in the clinical testing phase was 37% of the population. There was a variation between the groups during the day (systolic) but there was not a significant difference during the night.