Research Article

Cardiovascular and Autonomic Responses after a Single Bout of Resistance Exercise in Men with Untreated Stage 2 Hypertension

Table 2

Spectral analysis of the heart rate variability before and after RE and CTR trial.

Baseline20 min80 min24 h

Heart rate (bpm)
Control trial62 ± 258 ± 258 ± 267 ± 1
Resistance exercise64 ± 282 ± 271 ± 1†66 ± 1
Total power (ms2)
Control trial3210.95 ± 2559.833943.32 ± 2312.904655.87 ± 2940.151885.68 ± 1095.88
Resistance exercise3050.01 ± 2082.16772.59 ± 765.272044.91 ± 1305.782042.24 ± 967.75
LF (ms2)
Control trial1213.68 ± 910.161711.86 ± 1665.671968.06 ± 2397.95863.02 ± 585.61
Resistance exercise1240.59 ± 760.96314.76 ± 367.01532.79 ± 248.99874.38 ± 429.65
HF (ms2)
Control trial588.08 ± 428.68635.88 ± 470.38940.03 ± 711.08312.36 ± 292.73
Resistance exercise520.36 ± 332.92147.19 ± 166.96547.73 ± 1004.91349.30 ± 242.97
LFn (n.u)
Control trial69.31 ± 10.4569.35 ± 10.6563.36 ± 14.5970.03 ± 16.43
Resistance exercise65.90 ± 14.0861.31 ± 17.0561.66 ± 25.1970.53 ± 10.69
HFn (n.u)
Control trial28.63 ± 10.0028.88 ± 10.1334.47 ± 14.4725.91 ± 13.77
Resistance exercise29.68 ± 11.3831.14 ± 11.3832.30 ± 18.9126.15 ± 9.72
SDNN (ms)
Control trial62.9 ± 2465.3 ± 3574.5 ± 2844.1 ± 29
Resistance exercise61.9 ± 1932.8 ± 2447.8 ± 1646.3 ± 23
PNN50
Control trial17.4 ± 5.721.8 ± 5.925.4 ± 8.77.5 ± 4.0
Resistance exercise16.2 ± 5.83.6 ± 2.69.5 ± 4.310.1 ± 4.7
RMSSD (ms)
Control trial42.4 ± 18.446.8 ± 21.151.7 ± 19.728.0 ± 11.2
Resistance exercise44.2 ± 19.019.3 ± 9.831.3 ± 12.330.6 ± 16.7

LF, low-frequency power; HF, high-frequency power; n.u. normalized units; SDNN, standard deviation of normal-to-normal; PNN50, proportion of differences in successive NN intervals >50 ms; RMSSD, square root of the mean squared successive differences in pulse interval. versus baseline; †versus same moment of CTR trial.