Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Energy Demand in a Video Game Active Session and Potencial to Promove Post Exercise Hypotension in Hypertensive Women
Brief Summary: The aim of this study was to determine the energy demand and the potential to promote reduce blood pressure of an active video game (AVG). Fourteen hypertensive (56.4 ± 7.5 years) held a session AVG and traditional sedentary video game sessions (SVG) and walk (WAL), as negative and positive controls, in order determined randomly. During the sessions, they were observed oxygen consumption and energy expenditure (EE). Blood pressure (BP) and cardiac autonomic modulation (CAM) were measured at rest and every 15 minutes of a 60 minute period of recovery activities. It was also applied a rating scale of pleasure (enjoyment scale).