Resistance Exercise, the Valsalva Maneuver, and Cerebrovascular Transmural Pressure
Bibliographic record
Abstract
PURPOSE: To examine the acute effects of resistance exercise (RE) performed without a Valsalva maneuver (VM) versus a VM performed alone on systolic pressure, intracranial pressure (ICP), and cerebrovascular transmural pressure (CVTMP) (i.e., the important pressure that stresses the cerebral arterial and aneurysmal walls and calculated as systolic pressure minus ICP). METHODS: The subjects for this study consisted of seven (mean +/- SD, Age: 39 +/- 14 yr) fully alert, cooperative, and clinically stable individuals who recently underwent various neurosurgical operations. Heart rate, systolic pressure, ICP, and CVTMP were obtained at rest, during a VM, and during submaximal (8.0 +/- 3.0 kg performed for 18 +/- 10 repetitions) unilateral bicep curl RE. RESULTS: The VM resulted in a significantly greater increase in ICP (VM: 31 +/- 14 mm Hg vs RE: 16 +/- 7 mm Hg, P< 0.05) with a concomitant decrease in CVTMP (VM: 106 +/- 22 mm Hg vs RE: 132 +/- 14 mm Hg, P< 0.05) compared with unilateral bicep curl RE. CONCLUSIONS: Unilateral bicep curl RE results in a greater increase in CVTMP compared to a VM performed alone.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
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 | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".