“…In the research conducted by Thiebaud et al (2016) all age groups were included, and for this review, only the age group that met the criterion was taken into consideration. Gender-wise, women were the more represented group, with 13 studies including only female participants, five including both sexes (de Freitas Heffernan et al, 2013;Ho et al, 2012;Oliveira et al, 2016;Yasuda et al, 2014), whereas in three studies the participants were only male (Kawano et al, 2012;Lacombe et al, 2011;Thiebaud et al, 2016). In 15 analyzed studies, the participants had a previous history of prehypertension, in four studies participants had a previous history of hypertension (Brito et al, 2014;de Freitas Brito et al, 2014;Kawano et al, 2012;Yasuda et al, 2014) and two studies contained a sample of normotensive and prehypertensive participants (Gomes, Almeida, Silva, & Becker, 2011;Ubolsakka-Jones et al, 2016).…”