tribution of fat stores is a beneficial effect of exercise on hypertension (Cottrell, 1995).
Regular exercise causes cardiovascular, neural, humoral and metabolic changes. Direct effects of regular exercise include changes in blood pressure and lipid profiles, increased insulin sensitivity, reduced sympathetic activity and increased gain of the baroreceptor-heart rate reflex and increased arterial compliance (Jennings, 1995). Exercise is associated with alterations in regulation of catecholamines; the effects found of exercise on reductions of systolic and diastolic blood pressure may be due to the reduction in catecholamine synthesis after training (Scarpace & Lowenthal, 1994). Netter (1987) reports that psychological aspects of catecholamine response patterns to pain and mental stress are related to hypertension. Epinephrine released during stress and circulating epinephrine acts as a sympathetic cotransmitter and may be implicated in the development of hypertension (Cerasola, Cottone, D'Ignoto
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