Table 2.

Office blood pressure measures before (pre) and after (for 1 h) the power training and control sessions in men and women.

Variables	Control	Power training	Intervention		Sex
			ΔBP (mmHg)	p value	ΔBP (mmHg)	p value
Systolic Pre
Men	130.4 ± 4.0	129.0 ± 3.5	−1.4 ± 2.9	0.622	3.6 ± 5.3	0.191
Women	134.5 ± 3.5	129.5 ± 4.4	−5.0 ± 3.8	0.191
Post 15'
Men	136.6 ± 4.6	131.7 ± 5.1	−4.9 ± 3.4	0.151	5.4 ± 7.3	0.437
Women	142.4 ± 5.9	132.1 ± 5.2	−10.3 ± 2.5	<0.001
Post 30'
Men	141.5 ± 5.4	132.2 ± 4.6	−9.3 ± 2.9	0.001	−3.3 ± 6.4	0.400
Women	143.6 ± 5.1	137.6 ± 4.5	−6.0 ± 3.4	0.074
Post 45'
Men	145.1 ± 5.5	122.1 ± 11.3	−23.0 ± 10.7	0.031	−16.9 ± 12.7	0.103
Women	148.9 ± 4.9	142.8 ± 5.7	−6.1 ± 4.5	0.178
Post 60'
Men	150.0 ± 5.4	131.3 ± 4.5	−18.7 ± 3.6	<0.001	−15.0 ± 7.2	0.048
Women	149.1 ± 4.8	145.5 ± 5.6	−3.7 ± 3.3	0.260
Average post 1 h
Men	143.3 ± 4.9	129.3 ± 5.7	−13.9 ± 4.4	<0.001	−7.4 ± 4.9	0.046
Women	146.0 ± 5.0	139.5 ± 4.9	−6.5 ± 2.8	0.046
Diastolic Pre
Men	76.4 ± 3.1	75.3 ± 2.1	−1.1 ± 1.7	0.516	0.7 ± 3.5	0.491
Women	74.6 ± 2.9	72.8 ± 2.9	−1.8 ± 2.9	0.554
Post 15'
Men	80.2 ± 3.5	74.7 ± 3.0	−5.5 ± 2.7	0.043	−2.6 ± 4.3	0.537
Women	77.3 ± 3.1	74.4 ± 3.1	−2.9 ± 2.3	0.202
Post 30'
Men	81.8 ± 3.4	74.7 ± 2.9	−7.1 ± 2.4	0.003	−6.6 ± 4.7	0.079
Women	77.8 ± 3.3	77.3 ± 2.8	−0.5 ± 2.4	0.861
Post 45'
Men	82.6 ± 3.4	76.2 ± 3.3	−6.5 ± 2.3	0.004	−5.0 ± 4.5	0.352
Women	78.4 ± 3.0	76.9 ± 3.1	−1.5 ± 2.9	0.601
Post 60'
Men	87.0 ± 3.5	76.0 ± 2.8	−11.0 ± 1.7	0.001	−9.2 ± 4.9	0.049
Women	78.4 ± 3.4	79.2 ± 3.1	1.8 ± 2.9	0.752
Average post 1 h
Men	82.9 ± 3.3	75.4 ± 2.8	−7.5 ± 2.2	<0.001	−6.0 ± 2.2	0.052
Women	77.9 ± 3.0	76.9 ± 2.9	−1.0 ± 2.2	0.638

Values: mean ± SE; BP, blood pressure. p-value in the intervention is comparing the interventions separately in men and women (power training vs control). p-value in the sex is comparing the results of the sexes in the interventions (men vs women).