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The effects of exercise training on HPA-axis reactivity and autonomic response to acute stress – a randomized controlled study

https://doi.org/10.5878/p8e1-9s32
The aim of the present trial was to study the effects of a six-month aerobic exercise intervention on the physiological response to acute laboratory stress. A two-armed RCT including untrained but healthy individuals aged 20-50 years was conducted. Assessments included a peak oxygen uptake test and a psychosocial stress test (the Trier Social Stress Test). A total of 88 participants went through both baseline and follow-up measures (48 in the intervention group and 40 in the control group) with an even distribution of women and men (20/28 in the intervention group and 18/22 in the control group, respectively). Outcome measures were adrenocorticotrophic hormone, cortisol, systolic- and diastolic blood pressure and heart rate responses to acute psychosocial stress. Outcome measures: adrenocorticotrophic hormone, cortisol, systolic- and diastolic blood pressure and heart rate responses to acute psychosocial stress.

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Creator/​Principal investigator(s):

  • Elin Arvidson - Region Västra Götaland - Institutet för stressmedicin
  • Ingibjörg H Jonsdottir - Region Västra Götaland - Institutet för stressmedicin

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  • 917-12

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Population:

Age 20-50 years; essentially healthy (not suffering from any known somatic or psychiatric disease such as diabetes, heart disease or stress-related diseases) and working or studying at least 50 % of full time, no regular exercise during the last year and rate themselfes as mostly sedentary

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  • Experimental study

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Randomized controlled trial

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110

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88

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Time period(s) for data collection:

2013 - 2016

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Responsible department/​unit:

Institutet för stressmedicin

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Gothenburg - 917-12

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  • Swedish Research Council for Heath, Workning Life and Walfare

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Arvidson, E. (2019). Physiological responses to acute physical and psychosocial stress - relation to aerobic capacity and exercise training. Doctoral dissertation. Department of Food and Nutrition, and Sport Science. University of Gothenburg. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/59602Opens in a new tab

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