DISCUSSION
EVANS, ARTERIAL STIFFNESS
While the efficacy of IET as an anti‐hypertensive intervention is well‐reported, very little research to date has investigated its potential effects on measures of arterial stiffness. This study demonstrates that a short‐term IET intervention produced statistically significant improvements in the AIx, which is a marker of systemic arterial stiffness, concurrent to significant reductions in TPR and PP (Fantin et al., To date, only few studies have investigated the effects of IET on the AIx. Similar to the present study, Okamoto et al. (Interestingly, with this study employing a wall squat IET protocol, and given that BP was measured at the index or middle finger and brachial artery, our findings must reflect some degree of systematic change in vascular resistance, rather than localized adaptations to the exercised muscle, as has been previously demonstrated through flow‐mediated dilatation testing following handgrip IET (Correia et al., Fundamentally, the AIx reduction seen in the present study is generally greater, or at least similar to that of previous investigations of differing exercises modes. A previous meta‐analysis reported a non‐significant mean reduction of 3% in the AIx from dynamic resistance training (Evans et al., 