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 3 Relationship between body surface area, derived cardiovascular indices, and recovery heart rate/blood pressure 3 min after removal of exercise stimulus

Variables	ARHR3		ARSBP3		ARDBP3		% RHR3		% SBP3		% DBP3
Variables	r	p-value	r	p-value	r	p-value	r	p-value	r	p-value	r	p-value
BSA	0.04	0.73	0.02	0.84	−0.08	0.44	0.14	0.18	−0.06	0.57	−0.09	0.54
RPP	−0.20*	0.04	−0.11	0.27	−0.07	0.47	−0.33**	0.00	−0.13	0.18	−0.06	0.54
PP	0.05	0.64	0.15	0.14	0.17	0.08	0.01	0.94	0.05	0.60	0.17	0.09
MAP	0.13	0.19	0.25*	0.01	0.06	0.55	0.139	0.16	0.20*	0.05	0.06	0.55

BSA Body surface area, RPP Rate pressure product, PP Pulse pressure, MAP Mean arterial pressure, ARHR1 Absolute recovery heart rate at 3 min, ARSBP3 Absolute recovery systolic blood pressure at 3 min, ARDBP3 Absolute recovery diastolic blood pressure at 3 min; %RHR3 Percent recovery heart rate at 3 min, %RSBP3 Percent recovery systolic blood pressure at 3 min, %RDBP3 Percent recovery diastolic blood pressure at 3 min; **correlation significant at 0.01; *correlation significant at 0.05