ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021
The Acute Effect of Exercise on Arterial Stiffness in Healthy Subjects: A Meta-Analysis.
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 63 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Effect of Exercise on Arterial Stiffness in Healthy Young, Middle-Aged and Older Women: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
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- Uninterrupted prolonged sitting and arterial stiffness: moderating effect of prior aerobic exercise in physically active adults.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Trial
- Exercise-Induced Oxygen Desaturation Increases Arterial Stiffness in Patients with COPD During the 6WMT.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2024Trial
- Acute effects of moderate-intensity continuous and high-intensity interval exercise on vascular function.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Resistance exercise with combined Valsalva manoeuvre acutely increases carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity in healthy untrained individuals.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- The acute effects of exercise intensity and inorganic nitrate supplementation on the Buckberg ratio in postmenopausal females.Experimental physiology · 2026Article
- Forty years later: adult health and non-communicable disease following the 1984-1985 Great Ethiopian Famine - a retrospective cohort study.BMJ global health · 2026Article
- Vascular function responses to resistance exercise followed by intermittent hypoxic exposure in untrained males.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Day-to-Day Reproducibility of Arterial Stiffness Following a Bout of Resistance Exercise in Healthy Young Females: A Reliability Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Mechanisms of exercise-induced reduction in peripheral arterial stiffness.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Article
- Cardiorespiratory Fitness as a Determinant of Arterial Elasticity in Response to Exercise: Evidence from a Study of Young Athletes and Healthy Controls.Acta Cardiologica Sinica · 2025Article
- Time course of cardiovascular responses to acute sustained handgrip exercise in young physically active men.Physiological reports · 2025Article
- Alterations in the autonomic and haemodynamic response to prolonged high-intensity endurance exercise in individuals with coronary artery calcification.Experimental physiology · 2025Article
- Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Exploring the Intersection of Cardiovascular Disease, Sex and Race and How Exercise, and Gut Microbiota Influence these Relationships.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Review
- The Effects of Endurance Training and High-Intensity Resistance Training on Pulse Wave Velocity and QT Dispersion.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Association Between Recovery Systolic Blood Pressure After Spot Marching Exercise and Vascular Function in Middle-Aged Adults.Vascular health and risk management · 2025Article
- Physical Activity and Arterial Stiffness: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2025Review
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Authors and funding
6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
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Abstract
Arterial stiffness has been shown to be a subclinical marker associated with cardiovascular disease. Meanwhile, long-term exercise has been demonstrated to reduce arterial stiffness, providing a decrease in cardiovascular risk. However, the acute effect of exercise on arterial stiffness is unclear. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess the acute effect of exercise interventions on arterial stiffness in healthy adults. We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, MEDLINE (via Pubmed), Scopus, and Web of Science databases, from their inception to 30 June 2020. A meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the acute effect of exercise on arterial stiffness using random-effects models to calculate pooled effect size estimates and their corresponding 95% CI. Pulse wave velocity was measured as an arterial stiffness index. The 30 studies included in the meta-analysis showed that pulse wave velocity was not modified immediately after exercise (0 min post) (ES: 0.02; 95% CI: -0.22, 0.26), but subsequently decreased 30 min after exercise (ES: -0.27; 95% CI: -0.43, -0.12). Thereafter, pulse wave velocity increased to its initial value 24 h after exercise (ES: -0.07; 95% CI: -0.21, 0.07). Our results show that, although there is a significant reduction in pulse wave velocity 30 min after exercise, the levels of arterial stiffness return to their basal levels after 24 h. These findings could imply that, in order to achieve improvements in pulse wave velocity, exercise should be performed on a daily basis.
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