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ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022

The Identification and Management of High Blood Pressure Using Exercise Blood Pressure: Current Evidence and Practical Guidance.

Martin G Schultz, Katharine D Currie, Kristofer Hedman, Rachel E Climie, Andrew Maiorana, Jeff S Coombes, James E Sharman

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Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Prognostic value of exercise blood pressure: role of fitness and exercise training.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Martin G SchultzMenzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7000, Australia.
Katharine D CurrieDepartment of Kinesiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9072-7056
Kristofer HedmanDepartment of Clinical Physiology in Linköping, and Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-3751-7180
Rachel E ClimieMenzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7000, Australia.
Andrew MaioranaFaculty of Health Sciences, School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Curtin University and Allied Health Department, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, WA 6102, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0681-1707
Jeff S CoombesSchool of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
James E SharmanMenzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7000, Australia.
University of Tasmania · AUCurtin University · AULinköping University · SEMichigan State University · USThe University of Queensland · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High blood pressure (BP) is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The identification of high BP is conventionally based on in-clinic (resting) BP measures, performed within primary health care settings. However, many cases of high BP go unrecognised or remain inadequately controlled. Thus, there is a need for complementary settings and methods for BP assessment to identify and control high BP more effectively. Exaggerated exercise BP is associated with increased CVD risk and may be a medium to improve identification and control of high BP because it is suggestive of high BP gone undetected on the basis of standard in-clinic BP measures at rest. This paper provides the evidence to support a pathway to aid identification and control of high BP in clinical exercise settings via the measurement of exercise BP. It is recommended that exercise professionals conducting exercise testing should measure BP at a fixed submaximal exercise workload at moderate intensity (e.g., ~70% age-predicted heart rate maximum, stage 1-2 of a standard Bruce treadmill protocol). If exercise systolic BP is raised (≥170 mmHg), uncontrolled high BP should be assumed and should trigger correspondence with a primary care physician to encourage follow-up care to ascertain true BP control (i.e., home, or ambulatory BP) alongside a hypertension-guided exercise and lifestyle intervention to lower CVD risk related to high BP.

Indexed as

Cardiovascular DiseasesHypertensionBlood PressureBlood Pressure Monitoring, AmbulatoryExerciseExercise TestHumansRisk Factorsblood pressurecardiovascular diseaseexercise physiologyexercise testing

Identifiers

PMID35270514
PMCPMC8910717
OpenAlexW4214482470

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