Trial reportEuropean journal of applied physiology2012
Acute effects of warm footbath on arterial stiffness in healthy young and older women.
Trial report in European journal of applied physiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- The effects of hot-water immersion on cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory health of healthy adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Physiological reports · 2026Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of heat-induced changes in cardiac function from over 400 laboratory-based heat exposure studies.Nature communications · 2025Pooled it
- The effect of foot bath on sleep quality in the elderly: a systematic review.BMC geriatrics · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of a Footbathing Intervention on Physiological, Endocrine, and Psychological Status in Japanese University Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Trial
- Acute effects of moderate-intensity continuous and accumulated exercise on arterial stiffness in healthy young men.European journal of applied physiology · 2015Trial
- Acute effects of continuous and interval low-intensity exercise on arterial stiffness in healthy young men.European journal of applied physiology · 2014Trial
- Heat Therapy: Targeting Health, Disease, and Disability.Comprehensive Physiology · 2026Review
- Applying thermal therapy: Comparison of different commercially available heating devices to increase muscle temperature.Experimental physiology · 2026Article
- Heat thermotherapy to improve cardiovascular function and cardiometabolic health: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Experimental physiology · 2025Article
- Acute effects of resistance-type and cycling-type high-intensity interval training on arterial stiffness, cardiac autonomic modulation and cardiac biomarkers.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Choroidal Thickness Increases During Parasympathetic Dominance After Immersion of the Foot in Warm Water.Cureus · 2024Article
- Parasympathetic Dominance Decreases the Choroidal Blood Flow Velocity Measured Using Laser Speckle Flowgraphy.Cureus · 2023Article
- Effects of half-body and foot baths on peripheral circulation in healthy adult males: a pilot study.Journal of physical therapy science · 2022Article
- Heat therapy: mechanistic underpinnings and applications to cardiovascular health.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2021Review
- The Effect of Warm Footbath on the Quality of Sleep on Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome in Cardiac Care Unit.Journal of caring sciences · 2019Article
- The Thermal Effects of Water Immersion on Health Outcomes: An Integrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Review
- Effects of acute footbath before and after glucose ingestion on arterial stiffness.Journal of clinical biochemistry and nutrition · 2019Article
- Effect of heat stress on vascular outcomes in humans.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2019Review
- Habitual hot water bathing protects cardiovascular function in middle-aged to elderly Japanese subjects.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Passive heat therapy: the next hot thing for cardiovascular health!The Journal of physiology · 2016Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Acute systemic thermal therapy can improve arterial stiffness in both animals and humans. We examined and compared the effects of acute local thermal therapy (footbath) on an indicator of human arterial stiffness, cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI), in 16 healthy young (29.4 ± 0.4 years) and 16 older (59.8 ± 1.7 years) women. Measurements were made at baseline (BL) and at 0 and 30 min after footbath in footbath trial, and at corresponding time points without footbath in control trial. In the footbath trial, subjects immersed their lower legs and feet in water for 30 min, with water temperature ranging from 41 to 43°C. The results showed that footbath elicited significant reductions in CAVI at 0 min compared to the same trial's baseline in both young and older groups (0.55 ± 0.07, P = 0.01 for young; 0.42 ± 0.15, P = 0.03 for older, respectively) with no changes found in the control trials. The percentage of CAVI change at 0 min was significantly greater in young women (91.9 ± 1.1%) compared to older women (96.5 ± 1.8%, P < 0.05). This study indicated that acute warm footbath results in transient improvement of systemic arterial stiffness in both healthy young and older women. Despite similar intervention, the percentage response of arterial stiffness to footbath was attenuated in older women.
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