Physiological Society

In adults it is known that endurance training can reduce both systolic and diastolic blood pressure by approximately 10 mmHg in individuals with moderate essential hypertension, but exercise does not seem to have an effect on subjects with severe hypertension. However, the mechanisms responsible for the decrease in blood pressure with physical activity have yet [...]

One of the problems in assessing the prevalence of physical inactivity (and therefore the estimation of the PAR) is that it is difficult to define physical inactivity. Most of the time, physical inactivity is defined as ‘not reaching the guidelines for healthy physical activity’. However in the beginning of the 1990s, Cale & Almond (1992) [...]