Cardiorespiratory fitness, fatness, and the acute blood pressure response to exercise in adolescence.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Exaggerated exercise blood pressure (BP) is associated with cardiovascular risk factors in adolescence. Cardiorespiratory fitness and adiposity (fatness) are independent contributors to cardiovascular risk, but their interrelated associations with exercise BP are unknown. This study aimed to determine the relationships between fitness, fatness, and the acute BP response to exercise in a large birth cohort of adolescents.

Methods

2292 adolescents from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (aged 17.8 ± 0.4 years, 38.5% male) completed a sub-maximal exercise step test that allowed fitness (VO_{2 max} ) to be determined from workload and heart rate using a validated equation. Exercise BP was measured immediately on test cessation and fatness calcu

SUBMITTER: Huang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7611236 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature