Postexercise Hypotension and Exercise Adherence

A sub‐study following the completion of the PULSE clinical trial investigated the reliability and time course of change of PEH during the 12‐week exercise training program. Participants (n = 10) were PEH responders from the EXERCISE + PEH control arm who underwent 12 wk of supervised aerobic exercise training, 40 min/session at moderate‐to‐vigorous intensity for 3 d/wk. BP was assessed via a home BP monitor. PEH was calculated as post‐ minus pre‐exercise BP for 36 sessions. To quantify the reliability of PEH, RMANCOVA and GRMANCOVA adjusted for pre‐exercise BP derived the between‐participant and measurement error variability that were used to calculate the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). The Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) compared the goodness‐of‐fit of the PEH models for each week of training.