Improved Left Ventricular Diastolic Function with Exercise Training in Hypertension: A Doppler Imaging Study

Table 1

Baseline clinical, morphological, and echographic characteristics of trained patients and untrained controls.

	Exercise group	Control group	𝑃 value
	𝑛=25	𝑛=25
Age (years)	64.6 (3.7)	65.0 (3.1)	.641
Male/female	16/9	15/10	.329
BMI (kg/m^2)	24.7 (3.6)	23.8 (3.0)	.436
Hypertension duration (years)	13.2 (3.5)	12.9 (3.8)	.712
HRrest (beats/min)	74.5 (6.1)	72.6 (7.4)	.193
SBPrest (mmHg)	138 (14)	140 (13)	.384
DBPrest (mmHg)	78 (13)	76 (15)	.211
LAVI (ml/m^2)	35.4 (2.1)	36.0 (1.8)	.431
LVDd (mm)	47.4 (5.5)	48.1 (3.3)	.828
LVSd (mm）	32.4 (2.6)	32.8 (2.4)	.783
IVST (mm)	10.8 (0.9)	11.1 (0.7)	.672
PVST (mm)	10.3 (0.4)	10.4 (0.3)	.532
LVEF (%)	54.5 (5.5)	55.0 (4.9)	.471

BMI: body mass index; HRrest: heart rate at rest; SBPrest: systolic blood pressure at rest; DBPrest: diastolic blood pressure at rest; LAVI: left atrial volume index; LVDd: left ventricular end-diastolic diameter; LVSd: left ventricular end-systolic diameter; IVST: interventricular septum thickness in diastole; PVST: posterior ventricular septum thickness in diastole; LVEF: left ventricular ejection fraction.