Trial reportResearch in nursing & health2009
Adherence to walking or stretching, and risk of preeclampsia in sedentary pregnant women.
Trial report in Research in nursing & health, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.
- Musculoskeletal Stretching and Arterial Stiffness: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Acute and Longitudinal Interventions.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Pooled it
- Structured exercise interventions for women at high risk of or diagnosed with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: a scoping review.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Prenatal exercise and its effects on postpartum mental health: systematic review and meta-analysis.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Does dose matter in reducing gestational weight gain in exercise interventions? A systematic review of literature.Journal of science and medicine in sport · 2016Pooled it
- The efficacy of physiotherapy for the prevention and treatment of prenatal symptoms: a systematic review.International urogynecology journal · 2015Pooled it
- The effects of physical activity and physical activity plus diet interventions on body weight in overweight or obese women who are pregnant or in postpartum: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Preventive medicine · 2013Pooled it
- Reducing the decline in physical activity during pregnancy: a systematic review of behaviour change interventions.PloS one · 2013Pooled it
- Exercise or other physical activity for preventing pre-eclampsia and its complications.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2006Pooled it
- Prenatal stretching exercise and autonomic responses: preliminary data and a model for reducing preeclampsia.Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing · 2010Trial
- Possible roles of exercise and apelin against pregnancy complications.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Review
- Walking in pregnancy and prevention of insomnia in third trimester using pedometers: study protocol of Walking_Preg project (WPP). A randomized controlled trial.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2020Article
- Effect of stretching exercises versus autogenic training on preeclampsia.Journal of exercise rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Associations between maternal physical activity and fitness during pregnancy and infant birthweight.Preventive medicine reports · 2018Article
- Physical Activity During Pregnancy and Subsequent Risk of Preeclampsia and Gestational Hypertension: A Case Control Study.Maternal and child health journal · 2016Article
- Strategies to Promote Physical Activity During Pregnancy: A Systematic Review of Intervention Evidence.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2013Article
- Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes of Exercise in Pregnant Women with Chronic Hypertension and/or Previous Preeclampsia: A Randomized Controlled Trial.ISRN obstetrics and gynecology · 2013Article
- Preventing long-term risk of obesity for two generations: prenatal physical activity is part of the puzzle.Journal of pregnancy · 2012Review
- Towards an Understanding of Change in Physical Activity from Pregnancy Through Postpartum.Psychology of sport and exercise · 2011Article
- The effect of stretching exercise and walking on changes of blood pressure in nulliparous women.Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery researchArticle
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Abstract
Pregnant women at risk for preeclampsia may benefit from the positive effects of exercise, but they may be unlikely to adhere to an exercise program. A randomized trial was conducted with 124 sedentary pregnant women to compare the effects of walking exercise to a stretching exercise on adherence and on the preeclampsia risk factors of heart rate (HR), blood pressure, and weight gain. Walkers exercised less than stretchers both overall and as pregnancy advanced. HR and blood pressure were lower among stretchers than walkers, but weight gain did not differ between the groups. For sedentary pregnant women, a stretching exercise may be more effective than walking in mitigating the risk of preeclampsia due to higher adherence and possible cardiac-physiologic effects.
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