Physical activity and blood pressure. A cross-sectional review
Background: Hypertension is known as a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and the world-wide prevalence of hypertension is expected to rise to 30 % by the end of 2025. Physical activity has been shown to be a major part of the conservative treatment of hypertension, although the nature of...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/11516 2023-05-15T17:43:36+02:00 Physical activity and blood pressure. A cross-sectional review Støyten, Martin 2017-09-19 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/11516 eng eng UiT Norges arktiske universitet UiT The Arctic University of Norway https://hdl.handle.net/10037/11516 openAccess Copyright 2017 The Author(s) VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Forebyggende medisin: 804 VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Preventive medicine: 804 VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Epidemiologi medisinsk og odontologisk statistikk: 803 VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Epidemiology medical and dental statistics: 803 MED-3950 Master thesis Mastergradsoppgave 2017 ftunivtroemsoe 2021-06-25T17:55:25Z Background: Hypertension is known as a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and the world-wide prevalence of hypertension is expected to rise to 30 % by the end of 2025. Physical activity has been shown to be a major part of the conservative treatment of hypertension, although the nature of the dose-response relationship is not known. The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between physical activity and blood pressure in the sixth survey of the Tromsø Study. Methods: Tromsø 6 is a population study performed during 2007-08 in northern Norway. The study included 12981 participators, and we analyses 9913 cases after removing cases with missing data. We used ANOVA and ANCOVA analyses to examine associations between blood pressure and physical activity using SPSS 24. Results: The unadjusted analyses showed a statistically significant inverse relationship between total physical activity and systolic blood pressure. These associations disappeared when adjusting for potential confounders. The same analyses provide no significant findings for diastolic blood pressure. Conclusion: Systolic and diastolic blood pressure was not associated with total physical activity level. Although unadjusted analyses showed an inverse relationship between systolic blood pressure and total physical activity, the significant association disappeared when adding BMI to the model, suggesting that some of the differences in mean systolic blood pressure seems to be due to lower BMI or other risk factors, rather than physical activity level. Master Thesis Northern Norway Tromsø University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Norway Tromsø |
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Background: Hypertension is known as a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and the world-wide prevalence of hypertension is expected to rise to 30 % by the end of 2025. Physical activity has been shown to be a major part of the conservative treatment of hypertension, although the nature of the dose-response relationship is not known. The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between physical activity and blood pressure in the sixth survey of the Tromsø Study. Methods: Tromsø 6 is a population study performed during 2007-08 in northern Norway. The study included 12981 participators, and we analyses 9913 cases after removing cases with missing data. We used ANOVA and ANCOVA analyses to examine associations between blood pressure and physical activity using SPSS 24. Results: The unadjusted analyses showed a statistically significant inverse relationship between total physical activity and systolic blood pressure. These associations disappeared when adjusting for potential confounders. The same analyses provide no significant findings for diastolic blood pressure. Conclusion: Systolic and diastolic blood pressure was not associated with total physical activity level. Although unadjusted analyses showed an inverse relationship between systolic blood pressure and total physical activity, the significant association disappeared when adding BMI to the model, suggesting that some of the differences in mean systolic blood pressure seems to be due to lower BMI or other risk factors, rather than physical activity level. |
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Støyten, Martin |
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Physical activity and blood pressure. A cross-sectional review |
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Physical activity and blood pressure. A cross-sectional review |
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Physical activity and blood pressure. A cross-sectional review |
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Physical activity and blood pressure. A cross-sectional review |
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Physical activity and blood pressure. A cross-sectional review |
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physical activity and blood pressure. a cross-sectional review |
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UiT Norges arktiske universitet |
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2017 |
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Norway Tromsø |
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Norway Tromsø |
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Northern Norway Tromsø |
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Northern Norway Tromsø |
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