Gender differences in the relationship between resting heart rate variability and 24-hour blood pressure variability
Why the study?
Are there gender differences in the relationship between resting heart rate variability and 24-hour blood pressure variability in healthy individuals?
Population
Healthy men and women
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Hypothesis-generating for sex-specific autonomic-BPV links; should not change practice without prospective confirmation.
Structured PICO
Are there gender differences in the relationship between resting heart rate variability and 24-hour blood pressure variability in healthy individuals?
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Population
Healthy men and women
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Intervention
Resting heart rate variability (time- and frequency-domain indices of cardiac autonomic control)
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Outcome
24-hour blood pressure variability (BPV)surrogate
Gender differences exist in the relationship between cardiac autonomic control and blood pressure variability, which may help explain disparities in cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality.
Cite This Study
Thayer et al. (2015) studied this question.