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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Physiol. 2022 Feb 16;601(22):5033–5050. doi: 10.1113/JP282274

Table 2.

Effect of exercise and insulin on peripheral and central hemodynamics.

Control Exercise P-Value

0 min Δ 0 min Δ C T C*T

HR (bpm) 65.0 (9.4) 10.0 (19.7) 67.9 (9.5) −3.1 (11.3) 0.943 0.729 0.227
Peripheral
pSBP (mmHg) 133 (15.9) −0.8 (11.0) 127 (10.0) 6.8 (9.0) 0.429 0.263 0.101
pDBP (mmHg) 83.6 (11.9) −0.7 (7.4) 81.3 (10.2) 1.6 (5.2) 0.505 0.744 0.466
pPP (mmHg) 49.4 (7.2) −0.1 (6.7) 45.5 (4.7) 5.2 (5.9) 0.530 0.170 0.032
Central
cSP (mmHg) 123 (13.5) −3.5 (12.5) 116 (10.5) 5.2 (10.4) 0.328 0.739 0.136
cDP (mmHg) 84.4 (11.8) −6.6 (25.5) 82.3 (10.4) −3.2 (18.2) 0.852 0.486 0.375
cPP (mmHg) 38.3 (4.9) −3.8 (5.2) 33.8 (5.8) 8.4 (16.0) 0.590 0.420 0.046
AP (mmHg)^ 11 (7, 16) −3.5 (−8, 4) 8.5 (3, 18) −1.0 (−7, 4) 0.106 0.020 0.576
AIx75 (%)^ 23 (15, 31) −3.5 (−14, 8) 25 (5, 37) −7.5 (−23, 13) 0.061 0.041 0.024
Wave Reflection
Pb (mmHg) 16.4 (2.2) −2.0 (3.6) 13.9 (3.0) 1.1 (3.8) 0.179 0.615 0.077
Pf (mmHg)^ 27.5 (19, 60) −0.5 (−34, 2) 23.5 (21, 33) 2.5 (−4, 6) 0.309 0.670 0.064
RM (%) 62.0 (9.9) −5.4 (9.3) 57.4 (13.3) 1.0 (11.6) 0.440 0.373 0.204
PPA 1.29 (0.8) 0.15 (0.2) 1.36 (0.2) −0.08 (0.3) 0.518 0.600 0.067

Data are complete (n=10) for all variables.

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Non-normally distributed data are presented as median (min, max). All other data are mean (SD). Augmentation index (AIx75); Augmentation pressure (AP); Backward pressure (Pb); Forward pressure (Pf); Heart rate (HR); Peripheral and central diastolic blood pressure (pDBP and cDP); Peripheral and central pulse pressure (pPP and cPP); Peripheral and central systolic blood pressure (pSBP and cSP); Pulse pressure amplification (PPA); Reflection magnitude (RM); Δ = 120–0 min.