Relation between derived cardiovascular indices, body surface area, and blood pressure/heart rate recovery among active and inactive Nigerian student

Bulletin of Faculty of Physical Therapy

Table 2 Relationship between body surface area, derived cardiovascular indices, and recovery heart rate/blood pressure 1 min after removal of exercise stimulus

Variables	ARHR1		ARSBP1		ARDBP1		% RHR1		% SBP1		% DBP1
Variables	r	p-value	r	p-value	r	p-value	r	p-value	r	p-value	r	p-value
BSA	0.09	0.37	0.04	0.67	−0.12	0.22	0.17	0.09	−0.02	0.81	−0.09	0.33
RPP	−0.23*	0.02	0.03	0.79	−0.10	0.32	−0.34**	0.00	0.01	0.92	−0.05	0.62
PP	0.05	0.59	0.22*	0.03	0.19	0.05	0.12	0.23	0.14	0.16	0.20*	0.04
MAP	0.18	0.07	0.33**	0.00	0.02	0.84	0.16	0.10	0.28**	0.00	0.07	0.46

BSA Body surface area, RPP Rate pressure product, PP Pulse pressure, MAP Mean arterial pressure, ARHR1 Absolute recovery heart rate at 1 min, ARSBP1 Absolute recovery systolic blood pressure at 1 min, ARDBP1 Absolute recovery diastolic blood pressure at 1 min, %RHR1 Percent recovery heart rate at 1 min; %RSBP1 Percent recovery systolic blood pressure at 1 min; %RDBP1, percent recovery diastolic blood pressure at 1 min; **correlation significant at 0.01; *correlation significant at 0.05