Why the study?
Does caffeine affect cardiovascular reactivity (blood pressure and heart rate) during rest and stress in healthy normotensive women?
Population
48 healthy, young, normotensive black and white women, half with and half without a parental history of…
Comparison
Caffeine 250 mg during rest and during a… vs Placebo during rest and during a stressful…
Design
RCT, randomized design, double-blind
Authors
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Small, stress-dependent caffeine effects on BP/HR do not warrant avoidance in normotensive women; extends prior data with sex-specific patterns.
Does caffeine affect cardiovascular reactivity (blood pressure and heart rate) during rest and stress in healthy normotensive women?
In healthy normotensive women, caffeine combined with psychological stress alters cardiovascular reactivity, though the effects differ partially from those previously observed in men.
Strickland et al. (1989) studied this question.
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