HKIN 466 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dyslipidemia, Myofibril, Circuit Training
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Clinical exercise physiology notes week of february 1 and 8. 1 in 3 american adults has hypertension, another 30% or so have prehyper- tension. High bp must result in high co, high tpr, or both: essential hypertension. Renal: deficiency in the renal handling of sodium and fluids. Pathophysiology: endothelial damage resulting in atherosclerosis and other vascular patholo- gies. Increased afterload on the heart may lead to left ventricular hypertrophy and is an important cause of heart failure. Men (>45 yr), and women (>55 yr), with chd risk factors (>1) when starting a vigorous (i. e. 60% vo2r, 6 mets) exercise program. Symptomatic individuals with cardiorespiratory or metabolic disease performing any exercise program. Sbp >200 mmhg or dbp >110 mmhg at rest are relative contraindication to exercise. Spb >250 mmhg or dbp >115 mmhg are criteria for test termination. Drug therapy: two or more antihypertensive medications. Severe hypertension: beta-blockers, diuretics: na-dependent, aldosterone antagonists (k-sparing, vasodilators: ace inhibitors, arbs.