Blood pressure reactivity to mental stress and aerobic fitness in normotensive young adult African-American males with parental history of hypertension
✍ Scribed by Bond, Vernon ;Vaccaro, Paul ;Caprarola, Michael ;Millis, Richard M. ;Blakely, Raymond ;Wood, Robert ;Roltsch, Mark ;Fairfax, Johnnie ;Hatfield, Bradley ;Franks, B. Don ;Williams, Deborah ;Davis, Gwendolyn C. ;Adams, Richard G.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 154 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0748-8386
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✦ Synopsis
Hypertension (HT) is the leading health problem in the adult African±American (AA) community and is associated with risk factors of stress, physical inactivity, and family history. We examined the in¯uences of aerobic ®tness and parental history of HT on blood pressure (BP) reactivity to mental stress in 60 normotensive young adult AA males. A 5-min mental arithmetic test was used as a provocative stress. Measurements of peak oxygen uptake (V . O 2peak ) were used to classify physically active and inactive subjects into groups of high and low aerobic ®tness. A questionnaire was used to evaluate parental BP histories. Reactivity of BP was indexed by differences in values (delta) measured during baseline and stress testing periods. Subjects with a parental history of HT (PH ) had signi®cantly higher baseline systolic BP and mean arterial BP (SBP, MABP) values than subjects with S t r e s s M e d i c i n e