Population
79 individuals including 30 young men, 21 young women, 14 older men, and 14 postmenopausal women.
Design
Cross-sectional
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May guide sex-specific autonomic assessment; hypothesis-generating for hormonal modulation and requires prospective confirmation.
Baseline muscle sympathetic nerve activity determines sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity to falling and rising diastolic blood pressure in men and postmenopausal women, but not in young women, suggesting a role for sex hormones.
Hart et al. (2011) studied this question.
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