Weight carrying effects on treadmill exercise response in persons without heart disease

Autor: T. Iwasaka, Mitsuo Inada, Tetsuro Sugiura, Yo Nagahama, Kazuya Takehana, Tadashi Hasegawa
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Clinical Physiology. 14:647-654
ISSN: 1365-2281
0144-5979
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097x.1994.tb00421.x
Popis: To evaluate the effect of weight carrying on dynamic exercise response, 12 normal subjects were studied during treadmill exercise using ear densitography in two ways: (1) no weight, (2) 10 kg weight in one hand. Although there were no significant differences in diastolic time (DT), tension-time index [TTI: systolic blood pressure x heart rate (HR) x left ventricular ejection time (LVET)] was significantly higher throughout the weight carrying exercise compared to dynamic exercise. The amount of change (delta) in TTI was significantly larger in the initial stage (control to 1 min) of weight carrying exercise compared to dynamic exercise, but there were no significant differences in the later stages (1-3 min and 3-6 min). A prolongation in LVET was observed despite increasing HR during the first minute of exercise in both type of exercise, but LVET was longer at any given HR in weight carrying compared to dynamic exercise. Thus, despite higher TTI throughout the weight carrying exercise, delta TTI was larger only in the initial stage which was caused by prolongation of LVET resulting from disproportionate increase in venous return of early exercise.
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