Nitric oxide and blood pressure response to resistive exercise in hypertensive women / Ryham Ezz Eldin Mohammed ; Supervised Azza Abdelaziz Abdelhady , Nehal Hamdy Elsaid , Samah Mahmoud Ismail

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Physical Therapy - Department of Physical Therapy for Cardiopulmomary and Geriatrics Disorders

to assess the effect of resistive exercise for different body muscles on blood pressure and Nitric oxide levels in hypertensive women. Forty sedentary postmenopausal hypertensive women were selected for this study, with 4 - 5 years at least of menopause. Their ages ranged from 50 to 60 years with mild hypertension from 139 / 89 to 159 / 99mmHg, their body mass index ranged from 25 to 29.9 (kg / m2) women. The study conducted in the outpatient clinic of physical therapy, Elshikh Zaied specialized hospital, Giza, Egypt from august 2013 to June 2014.The women were randomly assigned into four groups, Group 1 (control group), Ten patients received their medications only without participating in any exercise program, Group 2, 3, 4 (study groups) Thirty patients were divided randomly into three equal (in number) groups participated in a supervised resistive exercises program, Using moderate work load method (60 % of maximum voluntary contraction (MVC) performed 3 times per week for 8 weeks. group (2) exercised for quadriceps muscle group (3) for brachial biceps muscle, and group (4) for latissmus dorsi muscle, all patients to be assayed later for measurement of nitric oxide, blood pressure before and after the completion of the study

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