Population
70 healthy, normotensive adults, comprising 20 young men, 20 young women, 15 older men, and 15 older women.
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Hypothesis-generating for sex-specific sympathetic BP control; leaves open causality and relevance to women or clinical practice.
Age-related increases in muscle sympathetic nerve activity are associated with decreased blood volume and increased forearm vascular resistance in men but not women, highlighting sex-specific neural control of blood pressure.
Best et al. (2014) studied this question.