IJCS | Volume 33, Nº2, March / April 2020

139 Figure 1 - Relationship between statistically significant variables . This study presents some limitations that must be considered. The sample of the present studywas composed of medicated hypertensive individuals that enrolled in an exercise intervention aiming to reduce their cardiovascular risk, then the specific sample characteristics limit the generalizability of the findings to other hypertensive individuals, especially those with other associated pathologies (cardiac or cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes) or even to resistant hypertensive individuals, since only one patient presented this characteristic. The sample Silva et al. Factors associated with quality of life Int J Cardiovasc Sci. 2020; 33(2):133-142 Original Article