Contraceptive pills: A big revelation has been revealed in a research conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. It has been said that if women taking birth control pills do strenuous exercise (during which their large muscles are activated), their blood pressure does not change. Women use the oral contraceptive pill to avoid pregnancy. Although some oral contraceptive pills are known to increase resting blood pressure, the effect of these medications on blood pressure during vigorous physical activity is not yet fully known.
No effect on blood pressure
Additionally, research is unclear whether hormonal fluctuations during the menstrual cycle affect blood pressure. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have found that the use of oral contraceptives and normal fluctuations in the levels of hormones (such as estrogen) released by the ovaries have no effect on blood pressure in young, older women. from 20 to 25 years old. The research findings were also similar when it came to lower body exercise and activation of sensitive skeletal muscle neurons, which are known to contribute to an excessive blood pressure response in heart patients.
Is it safe to work out?
Dr Ninitha AJ, Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras. That said, the results of this study are very useful and very important because they speak to the effect of blood pressure during training in women taking oral contraceptives. It should be noted that blood pressure increases during training, which is called “exercise pressure reflex”. ‘. However, researchers showed that the “exercise vasopressor reflex” was the same in women, regardless of the stage of the menstrual cycle or the use of oral contraceptives.
There will also be other research
The findings, published in the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, suggest that oral contraceptives do not increase the blood pressure response in women any more than in those who do not use oral contraceptives. The next step in this work is to determine whether RPE is a contributing factor to cardiovascular risk in postmenopausal women, said Dr. Manda Keller Ross, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota.
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