With regard to the acute effect of the exercise on the 24-hour
blood pressure curve in patients evaluated through the blood pres-
sure ambulatorial monitoring (BPAM), Marceau
et al.
demonstrat-
ed that individuals trained at 50% and at 70% of the
V
O
2
max pre-
sented different pressure curve profiles; the individuals trained at
50% of the
V
O
2
max maintained reduction exclusively during the
wake period, while the individuals trained at 70% of the
VO2
max
maintained reduction even during the sleep period