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Resting Blood Pressure in Master Athletes: Immune from Hypertension?
Sports (Basel), Vol.11(4), 85
18/04/2023
PMID: 37104159
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Abstract
Ageing is associated with decreased physical activity, obesity and increased risk of hypertension (HTN). Master athletes (MA) have either pursued a physically active lifestyle throughout their life or initiated exercise or sport later in life. We assessed resting blood pressure (BP) in male and female World Masters Games (WMG) athletes. This was a cross-sectional, observational study which utilized an online survey to assess the blood pressure (BP) and other physiological parameters. Results: a total of 2793 participants were involved in this study. Key findings included differences between genders with males reporting higher resting SBP (+9.4%, p < 0.001), resting DBP (+5.9%, p < 0.001) and mean arterial pressure (+6.2%, p < 0.001). Significant differences (p < 0.001) were also identified when comparing WMG athletes’ resting BP results (genders combined) to the general Australian population with WMG athletes having a lower SBP (p < 0.001, −8.4%) and DBP (p < 0.001, −3.6%). Additionally, 19.9% of males and 49.7% of female WMG participants were normotensive whereas 35.7% of the general Australian population were normotensive. Only 8.1% of the WMG athletes (genders combined) were found to be HTN compared to 17.2% in the general Australian population. These findings reflect a low prevalence of HTN in WMG participants and support our hypothesis of a low prevalence of HTN in an active, but aged cohort of MA.
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- Title
- Resting Blood Pressure in Master Athletes: Immune from Hypertension?
- Creators
- Mike Climstein - Southern Cross UniversityJoe Walsh - Sport Science InstituteMark DeBeliso - Southern Utah UniversityTim Heazlewood - Sport Science InstituteTrish Sevene - California State University, Monterey BayLuke Del Vecchio - Southern Cross UniversityKent Adams - California State University, Monterey Bay
- Publication Details
- Sports (Basel), Vol.11(4), 85
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Identifiers
- 991013108313602368
- Copyright
- © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Academic Unit
- Human Sciences; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article