Effects of resistance training on central blood pressure and wave reflection in obese adults with prehypertension

Effects of resistance training on central blood pressure and wave reflection in obese adults with prehypertension

Por: A.  Figueroa.  Journal of Human Hypertension (2014) 28, 143–144.

Young overweight and obese adults with prehypertension are at increased risk of developing hypertension1 and arterial stiffness (pulse wave velocity, PWV). Moreover, obesity is associated with increased aortic blood pressure (BP) and augmentation index (AIx), two independent predictors of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality. The increase in aortic systolic BP (SBP) is in part attributed to an increased wave reflection from peripheral arteries to the aorta that causes augmentation of the second systolic peak (P2), leading to a subsequent increase in AIx.