SynthesisBMC public health2022
Effects of physical exercise on blood pressure during pregnancy.
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- Effect of family doctor contract services on non-communicable disease management among the elderly: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in health services · 2025Pooled it
- High-intensity interval training is an effective exercise mode to maintain normal blood pressure during pregnancy: a randomized control trial.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Association Between Gestational Blood Pressure Trajectories and Postpartum Normotension Recovery in Hypertensive Disorders: Retrospective Cohort Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2026Article
- Blood pressure in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes in singleton pregnancies: A bidirectional cohort study.European journal of obstetrics & gynecology and reproductive biology: X · 2025Article
- MOMs Chat & Care Study: Rationale and design of a pragmatic randomized clinical trial to prevent severe maternal morbidity among Black birthing people.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- Relationship between physical activity during pregnancy and maternal health outcomes: evidence from the MAASTHI cohort study in Bengaluru, India.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Association between three-timepoint maternal blood pressure trajectories during pregnancy and low birth weight: a longitudinal study based on NHANES 2005-2006.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Association of physical activity level during pregnancy with preterm birth and infant adiposity: longitudinal analysis from the MAASTHI cohort, India.Sport sciences for health · 2025Article
- Physically active pregnancies: Insights from the placenta.Physiological reports · 2024Review
- Prediction and secondary prevention of preeclampsia from the perspective of public health management - the initiative of the State of Rio de Janeiro.Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia · 2024Article
- The Association between Maternal Urinary Phthalate Concentrations and Blood Pressure in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Metabolites · 2023Review
- Epigenetic modifications and fetal programming: Molecular mechanisms to control hypertension inheritance.Biochemical pharmacology · 2023Review
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Abstract
objectiveEffect of physical exercise on pregnant women currently has become a hot topic in prenatal health care. In this study, A meta-analysis was conducted on account of Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT). It focused on evaluating the effect of physical exercise intervention on blood pressure so that could provide certain evidence for health care during pregnancy.
methodsResults of relevant studies were retrieved from PubMed, Embase, Web of Science and the Cochrane Library, and all of these included studies were evaluated according to the Cochrane collaboration's tool for assessing the risk of bias. Stata 15.1 was used for meta-analysis, and mean difference (MD) was used as statistic for pooled analysis. The effect values were combined by conventional meta-analysis and Bayesian meta-analysis respectively, and the consistency of pooled results was considered as well.
resultsA total of 18 RCT studies were included in the quantitative analysis. The conventional meta-analysis showed differences in blood pressure between intervention group and control group (P < 0.05). Systolic and diastolic blood pressures of intervention group were 3.19 mmHg (95% CI: -5.13, -1.25) and 2.14 mmHg (95% CI: -4.26, -0.03) lower than that of control group, respectively. Bayesian meta-analysis showed that both systolic and diastolic pressure among intervention group decreased by 3.34 mmHg (95% CrI: -5.15, -1.56) and 2.14 mmHg (95% CrI: -3.79, - 0.50), respectively. Subgroup analysis supported that as long as healthy pregnant women participated in exercises, their blood pressure could be slightly regulated, while hypertension susceptible pregnant women significantly lowered blood pressure.
conclusionExercise intervention during pregnancy is beneficial to lower or normalize blood pressure, and this research provides clues for follow-up studies.
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