Effects of exercise on heart rate, blood pressure & pulse oximetry

              The heart rate of the individuals was measured using a pulse transducer on their right middle finger. The LabChart software has a feature, cyclic measurements, that automatically calculated the heart rate for the given set of data. The compared data specific to the change in heart rate can be seen in Figure 1.
               It is shown that the heart rate did increase when the participants held their breath(M=55, SD=0.28) before exercise compared to the normal breathing condition (M=41, SD=0.38). We then ran a t-test, t=1.48, to compare the averaged total change for each condition with a resulting p-value of 0.158. The level of significance was stated at P<0.05 and so the data from the heart rate parameter was found to not be significant. Due to the no significance, no further analysis was needed.
             Results show that the pulse oximetry decreased more when they were asked to hold their breath before exercise (M = 5, SD = 0.087) than it did during the normal breathing condition (M = 2, SD = 0.016) shown in Figure 3. In order to compare the averaged total change for each of the conditions we ran a t-test, t=1.294, and it had a p-value of 0.719. This difference in totally change was not significant with a p-value that was P<0.05.

Subheading for results 4 (Effects of exercise on pulse transducer)