Ambulatory Physical Activity as a Determinant of Diurnal Blood Pressure Variation
Open Access
- 1 October 1999
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Hypertension
- Vol. 34 (4), 685-691
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.hyp.34.4.685
Abstract
Abstract —There are reports that indicate that diurnal blood pressure (BP) variation, in addition to high BP per se, is related to target organ damage and the incidence of cardiovascular events. However, the determinants of diurnal BP variation are not adequately understood. We used actigraphy and ambulatory BP monitoring to study the diurnal variation of BP and physical activity in 160 adults. Within individuals, activity was more strongly related to pulse rate than to BP. The correlation between BP and activity was stronger during sleep than when awake, but the correlation between activity and pulse rate was higher during the awake period than during sleep. Between individuals, the sleep/awake ratio of systolic BP (SBP) was correlated with mean sleep activity ( r =.17, P r =−0.16, P r =.24, P r =.16, P r =−0.39, P r =.33, P P P P =0.08). Individual SBP responses to activity (the within-person slope of awake SBP regressed on activity) did not differ significantly among the 3 subgroups. In conclusion, physical activity is one of the determinants of ambulatory BP and its diurnal variation. We hypothesize that the association of sleep activity to sleep BP and dipping reflects differences in sleep quality.Keywords
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