Regular Tennis Exercise May Improve the Vascular Endothelial Function in Postmenopausal Women: The Influence of Hemodynamics

Weifeng Pan, Lijing Gong (), Guoan Xiao, Lantian Zhang, Yiran Xiao and Chunyan Xu ()
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Weifeng Pan: Key Laboratory of Exercise and Physical Fitness, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100084, China
Lijing Gong: Key Laboratory of Exercise and Physical Fitness, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100084, China
Guoan Xiao: Beijing No.10 Middle School, Beijing 100039, China
Lantian Zhang: Sport Science College, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100084, China
Yiran Xiao: Sport Science College, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100084, China
Chunyan Xu: Sport Science College, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100084, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 23, 1-15

Abstract: Physical inactivity plays a role in the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Although the current guidelines for physical activity, such as the prescription of exercise, seek to combat CVD, attaining the recommended targets remains challenging. Tennis exercise has been proven to have a unique advantage in reducing the mortality of CVD, but little is known about the influence of playing tennis on impaired vascular endothelial function (VEF), which initiates CVD. Thus, this study aimed to investigate whether regular tennis participation could protect the VEF better than merely meeting the physical activity recommended by the current guidelines. A cross-sectional design was performed based on a sample of 38 healthy postmenopausal women who were matched for physical activity, of which 17 subjects had long-term tennis experience and 21 age-matched subjects regularly exercised but did not play tennis. The cardiovascular function and the body composition of all subjects were measured. We used cluster analysis to assess the overall health status. The modeling results showed that the tennis players performed better in terms of VEF than the nonplayers (10.55 ± 0.58 vs. 8.69 ± 0.52, p < 0.01, R 2 ad = 0.367), while the wall shear stress positively correlated with VEF (r = 0.505, p < 0.05), after controlling for age and physical activity levels. Regular tennis exercise may be a protective factor for VEF, and further study should be performed to research the role of hemodynamics in tennis exercise.

Keywords: exercise prescription; atherosclerosis prevention; tennis exercise; endothelial function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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