Regular exercise and a healthy dietary pattern are associated with lower resting blood pressure in non-obese adolescents: a population-based study

Abstract

The study aims to assess the association of diet and frequency of extracurricular physical activity (PA) on blood pressure (BP) in non-obese adolescents. A total of 7185 non-obese adolescents aged 12-18 years were analysed to elucidate the relationship between BP and exercise/eating habit. Totally, 10.3% of the boys and 4.6% of the girls who responded to the questionnaire reported undertaking regular extracurricular physical exercise > or =3 times/week and were classified as being physically active. An unhealthy eating habit (UEH) score was constructed by counting the number of 'yes' responses to 11 dietary behavioural items considered to be unhealthy. In logistic regression analysis, age, body mass index, exercise frequency and UEH were significantly associated with BP (P<0.001). The odds ratios (ORs) for high BP in physically more active adolescents vs those who were less active was 0.48 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.30-0.77). The OR for high BP in those with UEH scores in the highest quartile vs those with UEH scores in the lowest quartile was 1.63 (95% CI 1.24-2.15). In conclusion, regular exercise and a healthy diet are positively associated with lower BP even in non-obese adolescents.

O sobrepeso e a obesidade não estão associados com a pressão arterial elevada em jovens praticantes de esportes

“…Similarly, the prevalence of HBP in the eutrophic participants was similar, regardless of sports practice, and was approximately 15%. This result was contrary to a previous study which showed that physical activity protected non-obese young people from HBP 37 . One aspect that should be considered is that there is a greater reduction in blood pressure resulting from physical activity in young people who have HBP 33 .…”

Efeitos do treinamento físico na inflamação sistêmica e da parede arterial na arterite de Takayasu juvenil: estudo controlado e randomizado

“…VDI score (u.a.) 2,00 (2,00-2,50) 2,00 (1,50-2,00) 1,00 (2,00-2,50) 1,00 (1,00-2,50) 1,00 (1,00-2,50) 0,317 (interleukin 1 receptor antagonist), IL-1β (interleukin beta), IL-6 (interleukin 6), TNF-α (tumor necrosis factor alfa), VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor), PDFG (platelet-derived grown factor), DXA (dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry), IMC (índice de massa corporal), DMO (densidade mineral óssea), CMO (conteúdo mineral ósseo), AF (atividade física), MVPA (moderate-vigorous physical activity), 1-RM (uma repetição máxima), VO2 PICO (consumo máximo de oxigênio), VO2 PCR (ponto de compensação respiratória), VO2 LA (limiar anaeróbico), FC (frequência cardíaca), FCR (frequência cardíaca de recuperação), HOMA-IR (homeostase model assessement for insulin resistance), HDL (high-density lipoprotein), LDL (low-density Nossos achados também são corroborados em outras doenças reumáticas pediátricas como no LESJ (Compeyrot-Lacassagne et al 2007), DMJ (Stewart et al 2003) e AIJ (Lien et al 2003;De Castro et al 2005) A inatividade física (Bos et al 2016) e o comportamento sedentário (Ford e Caspersen, 2012) são, em conjunto com a hipertensão arterial, dislipidemia, obesidade e baixa aptidão cardiorrespiratória preditores independentes para o desenvolvimento de doenças cardiovasculares (Myers 2003;Ruiz et al 2007;So et al 2013;Bos et al 2016).…”