Table 4.

Parameters of daytime and nighttime arterial stiffness.

	Baseline	12 weeks	24 weeks
Daytime systolic blood pressure (mm Hg)
Exercise	123.7 ± 9.1	127.1 ± 11.5	125.8 ± 10.4
No intervention	126.2 ± 12.9	123.8 ± 9.5	123.7 ± 4.8
Nighttime systolic blood pressure (mm Hg)
Exercise	111.3 ± 6.9	117.2 ± 7.2	117.6 ± 11.8
No intervention	114.3 ± 10.0	118.1 ± 12.1	117.3 ± 11.5
Daytime diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg)
Exercise	76.4 ± 6.7	76.7 ± 6.8	75.0 ± 4.6
No intervention	79.9 ± 6.3	78.4 ± 4.8	78.6 ± 6.7
Nighttime diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg)
Exercise	68.6 ± 8.5	70.2 ± 6.6	69.9 ± 5.6
No intervention	71.3 ± 7.3	73.2 ± 8.0	72.3 ± 10.0
Daytime cSBP (mm Hg)
Exercise	112.6 ± 7.6	115.6 ± 10.5	114.6 ± 8.8
No intervention	115.5 ± 11.4	113.3 ± 7.6	113.2 ± 4.8
Nighttime cSBP (mm Hg)
Exercise	102.5 ± 7.3	107.9 ± 6.6	108.4 ± 11.3
No intervention	105.7 ± 9.1	108.3 ± 10.9	108.2 ± 11.4
Daytime cPP (mm Hg)
Exercise	34.3 ± 5.0	37.3 ± 8.1	38.1 ± 7.8
No intervention	33.6 ± 7.0	32.9 ± 5.8	33.0 ± 4.9
Nighttime cPP (mm Hg)
Exercise	32.6 ± 4.5	36.3 ± 5.8	37.2 ± 7.4
No intervention	32.9 ± 6.4	33.4 ± 5.1	34.5 ± 5.0
Daytime Aix
Exercise	−45.7 ± 15.7	−47.3 ± 18.4	−49.8 ± 17.3
No intervention	−47.0 ± 14.4	−45.6 ± 15.5	−48.2 ± 11.2
Nighttime Aix
Exercise	−46.6 ± 11.5	−44.8 ± 20.6	−47.1 ± 15.3
No intervention	−40.5 ± 18.0	−43.3 ± 20.4	−42.7 ± 19.6
Daytime PWV (norm)
Exercise	9.0 ± 1.5	9.1 ± 1.1	9.2 ± 1.4
No intervention	8.2 ± 1.5	8.6 ± 2.1	9.7 ± 1.6
Nighttime PWV (norm)
Exercise	9.5 ± 1.2	9.5 ± 1.3	9.1 ± 1.5
No intervention	9.2 ± 1.5	9.3 ± 1.8	9.4 ± 1.8

cSBP: central aortic systolic blood pressure; cPP: central aortic pulse pressure; Aix: augmentation index; PWV (norm): pulse wave velocity normalized to systolic blood pressure of 100 mm Hg and heart rate of 60/min.

Data are given as mean ± SD. There were no statistically significant differences between groups or within groups.