Key result
Borderline hypertensive men exhibited significantly higher resting muscle sympathetic nerve activity and exaggerated pressor responses to physical and psychological stressors than normotensives (P<0.05).
Why the study?
Do young men with borderline hypertension have augmented sympathetic nerve activity at rest and in response to physical and psychological stressors compared to normotensive men?
Case-Control (n=20)
Do young men with borderline hypertension have augmented sympathetic nerve activity at rest and in response to physical and psychological stressors compared to normotensive men?
p-value: p=<0.05
Young men with borderline hypertension exhibit abnormal, augmented sympathetic nerve activity both at rest and in response to physical and psychological stressors.
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Should not yet change practice in borderline hypertension; leaves open sympathetic hyperactivity as a progression driver or target.
Matsukawa et al. (1991) conducted a case-control in Borderline hypertension (n=20). Borderline hypertension vs. Normotension was evaluated on Muscle sympathetic nerve activity, blood pressure, and plasma catecholamines at rest and during stressors (p=<0.05). Borderline hypertensive men exhibited significantly higher resting muscle sympathetic nerve activity and exaggerated pressor responses to physical and psychological stressors than normotensives (P<0.05).
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