Sex, ageing and resting blood pressure: gaining insights from the integrated balance of neural and haemodynamic factors

EC Hart, MJ Joyner, BG Wallin… - The Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Young women tend to have lower blood pressure, and less risk of hypertension, compared
to young men. As people age, both blood pressure and the risk of hypertension increase in …

Emotional stress‐induced Tako‐tsubo cardiomyopathy: animal model and molecular mechanism

T Ueyama - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Emotional or physical stress triggers Tako‐tsubo cardiomyopathy in postmenopausal
females, which is characterized by an elevation of the ST segment in the electrocardiogram …

Estrogen attenuates the emotional stress-induced cardiac responses in the animal model of Tako-tsubo (Ampulla) cardiomyopathy

T Ueyama, T Hano, K Kasamatsu… - Journal of …, 2003 - journals.lww.com
Reduction of estrogen levels may underlie the high incidence of'Tako-tsubo (Ampulla)
cardiomyopathy in postmenopausal females. Ovariectomized (OVX) and estradiol …

The effect of aerobic training and cardiac autonomic regulation in young adults

RP Sloan, PA Shapiro… - … Journal of Public …, 2009 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We tested the effect of aerobic exercise on autonomic regulation of the heart in
healthy young adults. Methods. Healthy, sedentary young adults (n= 149; age= 30.4±7.53 …

Quantitative meta-analysis of heart rate variability finds reduced parasympathetic cardiac tone in women compared to men during laboratory-based social stress

A Hamidovic, K Van Hedger, SH Choi, S Flowers… - Neuroscience & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Heart rate variability (HRV) is the inter-beat interval variation between consecutive
heartbeats and an autonomic reflection of emotional regulatory abilities to flexibly respond to …

Integrative physiological aspects of brain RAS in hypertension

SDB de Morais, J Shanks, IH Zucker - Current hypertension reports, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) plays an important role in
modulating cardiovascular function and fluid homeostasis. While the systemic actions of the …

The impact of menstrual cycle phase on cardiac autonomic regulation

PS McKinley, AR King, PA Shapiro, I Slavov… - …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigated menstrual cycle phase differences in heart rate (HR) and RR interval
variability (RRV) in 49 healthy, premenopausal, eumenorrheic women (age 30.2±6.2 years) …

Cardiac baroreflex sensitivity is not correlated to sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity within healthy, young humans

AP Dutoit, EC Hart, N Charkoudian, BG Wallin… - …, 2010 - Am Heart Assoc
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the cardiac and
sympathetic baroreflex sensitivities within healthy, young humans. The sensitivities of the …

Gender difference in cardiovagal baroreflex gain in humans

SD Beske, GE Alvarez, TP Ballard… - Journal of applied …, 2001 - journals.physiology.org
We tested the hypothesis that women would demonstrate lower cardiovagal baroreflex gain
compared with men. If so, we further hypothesized that the lower cardiovagal baroreflex gain …

Oestrogen receptors in the central nervous system and evidence for their role in the control of cardiovascular function

EJ Spary, A Maqbool, TFC Batten - Journal of chemical neuroanatomy, 2009 - Elsevier
Oestrogen is considered beneficial to cardiovascular health through protective effects not
only on the heart and vasculature, but also on the autonomic nervous system via actions on …