Acute mental stress-caused arterial stiffening can be counteracted by brief aerobic exercise

Autor: Hiroshi Endoh, Daisuke Kume, Masato Nishiwaki, Norio Hotta
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: European Journal of Applied Physiology. 121:1359-1366
ISSN: 1439-6327
1439-6319
DOI: 10.1007/s00421-021-04618-3
Popis: Acute mental stress (MS) causes an elevation in pulse wave velocity (PWV), an index of arterial stiffness. In contrast, aerobic exercise acutely decreases arterial stiffness, even in the short term. The present study aimed to examine whether acute MS-caused arterial stiffening can be counteracted by brief aerobic exercise. Thirteen young healthy men (mean age, 20 ± 1 years) participated in two randomized experimental visits where they were subjected to acute MS followed by seated rest (RE) or cycling exercise (EX) trials. Following a 5-min MS task, the participants in the RE trial rested on a chair for 10 min (from 10 to 20 min after the cessation of the task), whereas those in the EX trial cycled at 35% of heart rate reserve for the same duration. Heart-brachial PWV (hbPWV), brachial-ankle PWV (baPWV), heart-ankle PWV (haPWV), and the cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) were simultaneously measured at baseline and 5, 30, and 45 min after the task. Both trials caused significant elevations (P
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