Post-Exercise Hypotension: Effects of Acute And Chronic Isometric Handgrip in Well-Controlled Hypertensives
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Abstract
Isometric handgrip (IHG) training lowers resting blood pressure (BP) in individuals with hypertension, yet the effects of a session of IHG exercise on BP are unknown. In normotensives, a single session of IHG elicits a reduction in BP immediately following exercise (post-exercise hypotension, PEH). Therefore, we tested the hypotheses that, in hypertensives, a session of IHG would elicit PEH and that this response would be attenuated with IHG training. Twenty hypertensives (all medicated) were randomly assigned to an IHG training group (n=11; resting BP: 114 ± 13/61 ± 12 mmHg; mean ± SD) or a non-exercising control group (n=9; 118 ± 14/68 ± 4 mmHg). The IHG training group performed four 2-minute IHG contractions at 30% of maximal voluntary effort, three times per week for 8 weeks. BP was assessed (brachial artery oscillometry) prior to and for 22 hours following a session of IHG, before, during, and after the post-training period. At baseline, BP was not reduced following an IHG session in either group. These findings of which were upheld at mid- and post-training time points (all p ≥ 0.05). In conclusion, an IHG session does not elicit PEH in medicated hypertensives, and this does not change with chronic exposure to the IHG stimulus.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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