A sub-study following the completion of the PULSE clinical trial investigated the reliability and time course of change of PEH during the 12-week exercise training program. Participants (n = 10) were PEH responders from the EXERCISE + PEH control arm who underwent 12 wk of supervised aerobic exercise training, 40 min/session at moderate-to-vigorous intensity for 3 d/wk. BP was assessed via a home BP monitor. PEH was calculated as post- minus pre-exercise BP for 36 sessions. To quantify the reliability of PEH, RMANCOVA and GRMANCOVA adjusted for pre-exercise BP derived the between-participant and measurement error variability that were used to calculate the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). The Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) compared the goodness-of-fit of the PEH models for each week of training.
