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Cheri McGowan
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Latest papers
Understanding providers' beliefs, knowledge and practices of prenatal physical activity endorsement for the prevention and management of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: a qualitative study.
Therapeutic advances in reproductive health · 2026 · senior author
Estimating the efficacy of isometric handgrip training to lower resting blood pressure in patients with stage 1 hypertension in Eastern Uganda compared to standard of care: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
Trials · 2025 · senior author
Isometric Exercise Training and Arterial Hypertension: An Updated Review
Sports Medicine · 2024
Latest funding
- $17,500
The effects of isometric handgrip exercise on post-exercise hypotension in individuals medicated for hypertension.
CIHR · 2009 · Supervisor
6 publications.
Understanding providers' beliefs, knowledge and practices of prenatal physical activity endorsement for the prevention and management of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: a qualitative study.
Ceman L, Milidrag L, Brush C, Simone K, Nguyen G, Soucie K, Loughead T, McGowan C
Estimating the efficacy of isometric handgrip training to lower resting blood pressure in patients with stage 1 hypertension in Eastern Uganda compared to standard of care: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
Zinszer K, Isabirye H, Kalumuna C, Charland K, Katureebe A, Da Torre MB, van Wyk PM, Nabirye S, Stone J, Levy P, McGowan C
Isometric Exercise Training and Arterial Hypertension: An Updated Review
Jamie J. Edwards, Damian A. Coleman, Raphael Mendes Ritti‐Dias, Breno Quintella Farah, David J. Stensel, Samuel J. E. Lucas, Philip James Millar, Ben DH. Gordon, Véronique Cornelissen, Neil A. Smart, Debra J. Carlson, Cheri L. M. McGowan, Ian Swaine, Linda Shannon Pescatello, Reuben Howden, Stewart Bruce‐Low, Chris Farmer, Paul Leeson, Rajan Sharma, Jamie M. O’Driscoll
Effects of isometric resistance training on resting blood pressure: individual participant data meta-analysis.
Smart NA, Way D, Carlson D, Millar P, McGowan C, Swaine I, Baross A, Howden R, Ritti-Dias R, Wiles J, Cornelissen V, Gordon B, Taylor R, Bleile B
Commentary on aerobic versus isometric handgrip exercise in hypertension: a randomized controlled trial.
Smart NA, Carlson DJ, Swaine I, McGowan C
Reductions in ambulatory blood pressure in young normotensive men and women after isometric resistance training and its relationship with cardiovascular reactivity
Yasina B. Somani, Anthony Baross, Phillip David Levy, Kate Zinszer, Kevin J. Milne, Ian Swaine, Cheri L. M. McGowan
The effects of isometric handgrip exercise on post-exercise hypotension in individuals medicated for hypertension.
Principal investigators: Stiller-Moldovan, Cassandra L
Keywords: Hypertention; Isometric Hand Grip; Post Exercise Hypotension
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Kate Zinszer and Cheri McGowan: 2 shared papers
- Todd Loughead and Kendall Soucie: 1 shared paper
- Todd Loughead and Cheri McGowan: 1 shared paper
- Kendall Soucie and Cheri McGowan: 1 shared paper
- Department of Kinesiology
- Département de médecine sociale et préventive
- Psychological Aspects of Medicine and Health Care
- Physical Education
Co-authors at University of Windsor, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Kate Zinszer
Département de médecine sociale et préventive
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Philip Millar
Department of Human Health Sciences
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Todd Loughead
Physical Education
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Kendall Soucie
Psychological Aspects of Medicine and Health Care
1 shared papers, latest 2026
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