ReviewSports (Basel, Switzerland)2020
Are Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Stress Greater in Isometric or in Dynamic Resistance Exercise?
Review in Sports (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07213479 (Feasibility and Acceptability of Remote Home-Based Isometric Exercise and Lifestyle Change for the Management of Hypertension), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Feasibility and Acceptability of Remote Home-Based Isometric Exercise and Lifestyle Change for the Management of Hypertension
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Role of Active Video Games in Blood Pressure Management Among Children and Young Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Acute Blood Pressure Response to Different Types of Isometric Exercise: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Pooled it
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- Prognostic value of exercise blood pressure: role of fitness and exercise training.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2026Review
- Acute blood pressure responses to plank and wall sit isometric exercise in adults.Journal of hypertension · 2026Article
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- People with down syndrome exhibit a blunted hemodynamic response to isometric handgrip but not cycling exercise.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Five-year trajectories of gait speed and hand grip strength in older adults with cardiometabolic multimorbidity: a national retrospective cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Validation of a novel multi-exercise approach to isometric resistance training in normotensive adults.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Article
- Physical fitness and level of physical activity in adult patients with Marfan syndrome.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2025Article
- Clinical validation of a wearable ultrasound sensor of blood pressure.Nature biomedical engineering · 2025Article
- Time course of cardiovascular responses to acute sustained handgrip exercise in young physically active men.Physiological reports · 2025Article
- Effect of Different Isometric Exercise Modalities on Myocardial Work in Trained Hypertensive Patients with Ischemic Heart Disease: A Randomized Pilot Study.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
- Acute Changes in Myocardial Work during Isometric Exercise in Hypertensive Patients with Ischemic Heart Disease: A Case-Control Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Adjunctive hiking bouts during 8 weeks regular sailing training improves cardiorespiratory and muscular responses during hiking emulation in highly trained sailors.European journal of sport science · 2024Article
- Resistance Training Reduces Blood Pressure: Putative Molecular Mechanisms.Current hypertension reviews · 2024Review
- The physiological responses to volume-matched high-intensity functional training protocols with varied time domains.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Assessment of baroreflex sensitivity during isometric handgrip exercise and oscillatory lower body negative pressure.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2023Article
- Metabolic and cardiovascular responses to continuous and intermittent plank exercises.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2023Article
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Medical and sports medicine associations are reluctant to endorse isometric exercise to the same extent as dynamic resistance exercise (RE). The major concern is the fear of greater increases in blood pressure (BP) that might be associated with isometric exercise. This review comprehensively presents all human studies that directly compared the magnitude of hemodynamic responses between isometric and dynamic RE. We also discuss possible mechanisms controlling BP-response and cardiovascular adjustments during both types of RE. The most prominent finding was that isometric and dynamic RE using small-muscle mass evoke equal increases in BP; however, the circulatory adjustments contributing to this response are different in dynamic and isometric RE. In contrast, studies using large-muscle mass report inconsistent results for the magnitude of BP-response between the two types of RE. Thus, when the same muscles and workloads are used, the increase in BP during isometric and dynamic RE is more comparable to what is commonly believed. However, it should be noted that only a few studies equalized the workload in two types of RE, most used small sample sizes, and all studies employed healthy participants. More studies are needed to compare the cardiovascular risks associated with isometric and dynamic RE, especially in individuals with chronic disease.
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