ArticleVascular health and risk management2014
Effects of exercise timing on sleep architecture and nocturnal blood pressure in prehypertensives.
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- Effects of acute exercise performed at different times of day on respiratory, blood pressure, and cardiac autonomic modulation outcomes in patients with obstructive sleep apnea: a randomized crossover trial.Journal of human hypertension · 2025Trial
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- Physical activity and happiness of college students: chain mediating role of exercise attitude and sleep quality.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Clusters of lifestyle behavioral risk factors and their associations with depressive symptoms and stress: evidence from students at a university in Finland.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Impact of ischemic preconditioning combined with aerobic exercise on 24-h ambulatory blood pressure in men with prehypertension and stage 1 hypertension.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Inter-Individual Responses to Acute Resistance Training in the Blood Pressure Dipping Response in Normotensive and Hypertensive Men.International journal of exercise science · 2024Article
- The Effect of Physical Activity on Sleep Quality and Sleep Disorder: A Systematic Review.Cureus · 2023Review
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- Sleep Quality: A Narrative Review on Nutrition, Stimulants, and Physical Activity as Important Factors.Nutrients · 2022Review
- Exercise as a Peripheral Circadian Clock Resynchronizer in Vascular and Skeletal Muscle Aging.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Examining the Role of Exercise Timing in Weight Management: A Review.International journal of sports medicine · 2021Review
- Using Predicted Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk for Discrimination of Awake or Nocturnal Hypertension.American journal of hypertension · 2020Article
- The Effect of Timing and Type of Exercise on the Quality of Sleep in Trained Individuals.International journal of exercise science · 2020Article
- Association of Daily Rest-Activity Patterns With Adiposity and Cardiometabolic Risk Measures in Teens.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2019Article
- Circadian Rhythms, Exercise, and Cardiovascular Health.Journal of circadian rhythms · 2018Review
- Impact of physical exercise in cancer survivors during and after antineoplastic treatments.Oncotarget · 2018Review
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Abstract
backgroundDuring nocturnal sleep, blood pressure (BP) "dips" compared to diurnal BP, reducing stress on the cardiovascular system. Both the hypotensive response elicited by acute aerobic exercise and sleep quality can impact this dipping response. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of aerobic exercise timing on circadian BP changes and sleep architecture. MATERIALS AND
methodsTwenty prehypertensive subjects completed the study. During four test sessions, participants first completed a graded exercise test to exhaustion and then performed 30 minutes of treadmill exercise at 7 am (7A), 1 pm (1P), and 7 pm (7P) in a random, counterbalanced order at 65% of the heart rate obtained at peak oxygen uptake. An ambulatory cuff was used to monitor BP responses during 24 hours following exercise, and an ambulatory sleep-monitoring headband was worn during sleep following each session.
resultsAerobic exercise at 7A invoked a greater dip in nocturnal systolic BP than exercise at 1P or 7P, although the greatest dip in nocturnal diastolic BP occurred following 7P. Compared to 1P, 7A also invoked greater time spent in deep sleep.
conclusionThese data indicate that early morning may be the most beneficial time to engage in aerobic exercise to enhance nocturnal BP changes and quality of sleep.
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