Main description:

As the first primer on the effects of exercise on human hypertension, Effects of Exercise on Hypertension: From Cells to Physiological Systems provides the state-of-the-art effects of exercise on the many possible mechanisms underlying essential hypertension in humans. The book contains chapters by distinguished experts on the effects of exercise on physiological systems known to be involved in hypertension development and maintenance as well as less well known aspects of hypertension such as 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure profile and oxidative stress. An emerging area, the effects of resistance exercise training on blood pressure is also covered. A unique aspect of the book is that it covers the effects of exercise mimetics on vascular cell adaptations in order to begin to elucidate some of the cellular mechanisms that may underlie blood pressure reductions with exercise training. Lastly, the book will end with a chapter on the interactive effects of genes and exercise on blood pressure. Chapters are grouped by physiological system or mechanism. The text begins with two overview chapters; one on the general effects of aerobic exercise training and the second on the general effects of resistance exercise training on blood pressure. Each chapter begins with a bulleted list of key points. Effects of Exercise on Hypertension: From Cells to Physiological Systems will be of great value to professional individuals in cardiovascular medicine, the cardiovascular sciences, allied health care professionals, and medical and graduate students in the cardiovascular sciences and medicine.

Contents:

Effects of aerobic exercise on hypertension.- Overview of effects of resistance exercise on hypertension.- Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Mortality in Pre-Hypertensive and Hypertensive Individuals.- Exaggerated blood pressure response to exercise and its clinical significance.- Effects of exercise on the autonomic nervous system.- Effects of Exercise on Autonomic Function.- Cardiac output and contractility.- Effects of exercise on metabolic syndrome.- Effects of exercise on pro-oxidant and anti-oxidant systems.- Aerobic exercise and vascular function (endothelial-dependent and -independent function).- Resistance exercise and vascular function (endothelial-dependent and -independent function).- Effects of exercise on arterial stiffness.- Vasoactive substances.- Effects of aerobic exercise training on animal models of hypertension.- Effects of in vitro laminar shear stress as an exercise mimetic on endothelial cell health.