Analysis of HRV and Blood Pressure Variables of Obese Male Subjects After Aquatic Therapies

Abstract

This paper describes and analyzes blood pressure variables and 2 Heart Rate Variability (HRV) variables, namely RMSSD and Mean RR, after treatment with either immersion in water or WATSU® therapies of 26 obese young males. The objective of this paper is to show that subjects have shown a near random relation between systolic and diastolic blood pressures, before aquatic therapy of 26 obese subjects, and that the relation was corrected after aquatic therapy, in the sense that it demonstrated a near linear correlation and that is what is shown in medical literature. Also, the paper shows a correction of the relation between RMSSD and Mean RR HRV variables. These corrections highlight the significance of aquatic therapies for obese subjects as demonstrated by the results and analysis.