ReviewFrontiers in physiology2020
The Effect of Exercise Training During Pregnancy to Improve Maternal Vascular Health: Focus on Gestational Hypertensive Disorders.
Review in Frontiers in physiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06932250 (Vascular and Neural Mechanisms of Chronic Leg Heating in Pregnant Women With Obesity), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers.
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Vascular and Neural Mechanisms of Chronic Leg Heating in Pregnant Women With Obesity
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- The Impact of Medical Physical Training and a Structured Personalized Exercise Training Program on Hemodynamic Parameters and Arterial Stiffness in Pregnant Women.Biomedicines · 2024Article
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- The Impact of Physical Activity and Inactivity on Cardiovascular Risk across Women's Lifespan: An Updated Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Preeclampsia: Recent Advances in Predicting, Preventing, and Managing the Maternal and Fetal Life-Threatening Condition.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Application of the COM-B Framework to Understand Facilitators and Barriers for Practising Physical Activity among Pregnant Women and Midwives Participating in the WELL-DONE! Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Women's Knowledge and Perceptions of the Effect of Exercise during Pregnancy: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Prediction and prevention of preeclampsia in women with preexisting diabetes: the role of home blood pressure, physical activity, and aspirin.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, including gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia, occur in up to 10% of pregnancies and are associated with increased life-long cardiovascular risk. Physical activity improves cardiovascular health in pregnancy and may lower the risk of developing hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. However, a minority of pregnant women comply with the recommended level of physical activity. Adequate knowledge on the physiological effects of exercise in healthy pregnancy could help to overcome potential barriers as pregnancy is a unique window of opportunity to improve health outcomes for both mother and child. In this mini review, we discuss structural and functional vascular adaptations during healthy and hypertensive pregnancies, we elaborate on the effects of exercise on the vasculature and review the safety and existing evidence of exercise training as preventive therapy for gestational hypertensive disorders.
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