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Reprodutibilidade da medida da pressão arterial auscultatória durante o exercício de força [Reproducibility of auscultatory blood pressure measurement during resistance exercise]
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Reprodutibilidade da medida da pressão arterial auscultatória durante o exercício de força [Reproducibility of auscultatory blood pressure measurement during resistance exercise]

D M de Andrade, Annelise L Meneses, T R M Almeida, A de Souza Miranda and R M Ritti-Dias
Revista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano, Vol.14(4), pp.450-459
2012
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Abstract

blood pressure exercise muscle strength
The auscultatory method has been suggested as a viable option for blood pressure (BP) measurement during resistance exercise. However, indicators of reproducibility of this method during resistance exercise have not been established. This study aimed to analyze intra- and inter-examiner reproducibility of auscultatory BP measurements obtained during resistance exercise. Fourteen subjects (24±5 years; 22.0±2.4 kg/m2; systolic BP, 116±7 mmHg; diastolic BP, 75±4 mmHg) performed three sets of 15 repetitions of the knee extension exercise at 50% of their 1-repetition maximum at two different time points (T1 and T2). Before and during exercise, systolic and diastolic BP were measured simultaneously in both arms by two examiners. The intra-examiner intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) for systolic BP was 0.75 (0.57-0.86) and 0.76 (0.59-0.87) for examiners 1 and 2, respectively. In addition, systolic BP values were similar at T1 and T2 both for examiner 1 (144±9 vs. 146±18, p = 0.08) and examiner 2 (152±9 vs. 153±12, p = 0.32). Inter-examiner ICC was 0.68 (0.46-0.82) for systolic BP and 0.21 (0.11-0.50) for diastolic BP. It can be concluded that auscultatory systolic BP measurement during resistance exercise shows intra- and inter-examiner reproducibility ranging from 0.68 to 0.76, whereas diastolic BP measurement during resistance exercise shows low reproducibility.

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