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Exercise blood pressure in young adults as a predictor of future blood pressure: a 12-year follow-up of medical school graduates

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It has not been fully clarified whether exercise blood pressure (BP) in young adult men and women is useful to predict future BP, especially in Asian people. A long-term prospective study was conducted in graduates of a medical school in Japan; 138 men and 76 women whose mean age was 19.8 and 19.2, respectively, at baseline. A 5-min exercise tolerance test was performed at baseline, and BP immediately after exercise was measured. BP at 50% intensity exercise was also calculated. Multiple regression analysis was carried out to clarify the relationship of exercise BP at baseline to follow-up BP after an average of 12 years. In multivariate-adjusted models, the relationship of systolic blood pressure (SBP) at follow-up was stronger to SBP immediately after exercise (F=7.7, P=0.006) than to resting SBP (F=3.7, P=0.055) in men. The models in men showed that SBP immediately after exercise was a stronger predictor of follow-up SBP than SBP at 50% intensity exercise, and the results were similar for diastolic blood pressure (DBP) in men. For SBP in women, resting SBP was the strongest predictor of follow-up SBP (F=14.3, P<0.001), and exercise SBP was not significant predictor. For DBP in women, any DBP at rest or after exercise was not significantly related to DBP at follow-up. In young adult men, SBP and DBP immediately after exercise would be a stronger predictor of future SBP and DBP rather than BP at rest. However, in young adult women, resting SBP rather than exercise SBP would be better to predict future SBP.

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  1. Department of Health Care for Students, Kanazawa Medical University, Japan

    M Nakashima

  2. Department of Public Health, Kanazawa Medical University, Japan

    K Miura, Y Morikawa, M Nishijo, Y Nakanishi & H Nakagawa

  3. Department of Community Nursing, Kanazawa University School of Health Sciences, Japan

    T Kido & K Saeki

  4. Department of Physical Education, Kanazawa Medical University, Japan

    N Tamura

  5. Department of Cardiology, Kanazawa Medical University, Japan

    S Matsui

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Nakashima, M., Miura, K., Kido, T. et al. Exercise blood pressure in young adults as a predictor of future blood pressure: a 12-year follow-up of medical school graduates. J Hum Hypertens 18, 815–821 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jhh.1001749

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