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Heart rate recovery after physical exertion tests in elderly hypertensive patients undergoing resistance training

  • Murillo Jales Lins de Lira,
  • Ivan Daniel Bezerra Nogueira,
  • Juliana Fernandes de Souza,
  • Flávio Emanoel Souza de Melo,
  • Ingrid Guerra Azevedo,
  • Patrícia Angélica de Miranda Silva Nogueira

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-5150.029.001.AO05
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 1
pp. 53 – 60

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Abstract Introduction: Heart rate recovery after exercise is a valuable variable, associated with prognosis and it has been used as an indicator of cardiorespiratory fitness, especially in patients with heart disease, as hypertensive patients. Objective: This study aimed to analyze the response of heart rate recovery in elderly hypertensive patients undergoing a resistance training program. Methods: Sample was composed for 10 elderly women with a mean age of 70.7 ± 7.4 years. Exercise test and six-minute walk test were developed and we checked heart rate recovery in the 1st and 2nd minute post tests, before and after resistance training. Results: There was an increase in mean heart rate recovery in the analyzed minutes in both tests, but only in the 1st minute after six minutes walk test we found a significant increase (p = 0.02). Conclusion: The results suggest the efficacy of resistance training to improve cardiorespiratory fitness of elderly hypertensive patients.

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