Essential Hypertension
Conditions
Interventions
This is a randomized, controlled, crossover clinical trial (participants participate in both the experimental group and the control group, on different days) The sampling will be carried out using a
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Sponsors
Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal da Bahia - FACED
Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal da Bahia - FACED
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
Female
Age
60 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: being female; being aged 60 years or older; having been diagnosed with hypertension through a medical report or self-reporting as having hypertension and being on a prescribed antihypertensive medication; having been on antihypertensive medication at a maintained dose for the last 6 months; not having secondary hypertension and/or target organ damage; not using medications that directly affect cardiac autonomic regulation (e.g., beta-blockers and non-dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers, antidepressants); not having other cardiovascular diseases, aside from hypertension; not having grade II obesity or higher; not having diabetes with complications or using insulin; not having orthopedic conditions that prevent the practice of isometric resistance training; not being a smoker or having smoked in the last year; not undergoing hormone therapy
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: present safety blood pressure (BP) above 160 mmHg for systolic blood pressure (SBP) and/or 100 mmHg for dyastolic blood pressure (DBP) on the day carrying out the exercise in two consecutive reschedulings; impossibility to continue a collection for health reasons or any other reason raised by the participant; decide leave the study voluntarily; impossibility of carrying out experimental sessions intervention and control with a time interval of less than 3 weeks
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| It is expected that the answers cardiovascular disease in hypertensive elderly women after isometric handgrip exercise performed with an anti-stress ball are of Post-Exercise Hypotension | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| It is expected that the answers cardiovascular disease in hypertensive elderly women after isometric handgrip exercise performed with an anti-stress ball are of increase in endogenous production of nitric oxide;It is expected that the answers cardiovascular disease in hypertensive elderly women after isometric handgrip exercise performed with an anti-stress ball are of disturbance in autonomic modulation cardiac | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactSabrina Brandão
Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal da Bahia - FACED
Outcome results
None listed