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Check this out by the Medical College of Wisconsin - this is an abstract:
" November 2001
Link between weightlifters' high blood pressure, arterial disease studied
A Medical College of Wisconsin Cardiovascular Center team is the world's first to study a possible link between the abnormally high blood pressure experienced by many weightlifters during workouts and dysfunctional blood vessel response. This may lead to early onset atherosclerosis, in which fatty plaque deposits build up to narrow and harden arteries.
The condition plays a major role in cardiovascular disease and stroke, leading causes of death and disability in the Western world.
While exercise is often prescribed to reduce blood pressure and to improve blood vessel response, weightlifting can cause blood pressure to rise as high as 450/310mmHg. The effects of this exertional hypertension -- exercised-induced levels of 220/93 mmHg or higher -- are poorly understood, according to team leader David D. Gutterman, MD, Northwestern Mutual Professor of Cardiology and associate director of the Cardiovascular Center, and Susan Pitt, a medical student at the Medical College, who is coordinating the project.
"We hypothesize that exertional hypertension may lead to decreased vascular responsiveness, which many believe contributes to earlier onset of atherosclerosis," Dr. Gutterman said. "While brief periods of hypertension has been scientifically linked to abnormal vascular function, this is the first study to examine these relationships in humans."
The researchers are also using a powerful new vascular ultrasound system the
Logiq 700 ™, developed by GE Medical Systems of Waukesha, Wis., to observe and record blood vessel reactivity before and after the weightlifting routines. The system is currently on loan to the Medical College for cardiovascular research purposes and is essential to conducting this study, according to Dr. Gutterman. "
http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=928
" November 2001
Link between weightlifters' high blood pressure, arterial disease studied
A Medical College of Wisconsin Cardiovascular Center team is the world's first to study a possible link between the abnormally high blood pressure experienced by many weightlifters during workouts and dysfunctional blood vessel response. This may lead to early onset atherosclerosis, in which fatty plaque deposits build up to narrow and harden arteries.
The condition plays a major role in cardiovascular disease and stroke, leading causes of death and disability in the Western world.
While exercise is often prescribed to reduce blood pressure and to improve blood vessel response, weightlifting can cause blood pressure to rise as high as 450/310mmHg. The effects of this exertional hypertension -- exercised-induced levels of 220/93 mmHg or higher -- are poorly understood, according to team leader David D. Gutterman, MD, Northwestern Mutual Professor of Cardiology and associate director of the Cardiovascular Center, and Susan Pitt, a medical student at the Medical College, who is coordinating the project.
"We hypothesize that exertional hypertension may lead to decreased vascular responsiveness, which many believe contributes to earlier onset of atherosclerosis," Dr. Gutterman said. "While brief periods of hypertension has been scientifically linked to abnormal vascular function, this is the first study to examine these relationships in humans."
The researchers are also using a powerful new vascular ultrasound system the
Logiq 700 ™, developed by GE Medical Systems of Waukesha, Wis., to observe and record blood vessel reactivity before and after the weightlifting routines. The system is currently on loan to the Medical College for cardiovascular research purposes and is essential to conducting this study, according to Dr. Gutterman. "
http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=928
