Why the study?
Does cold exposure increase blood pressure, platelet function, and sympathetic nervous activity in healthy male volunteers?
Population
10 healthy male volunteers, mean age 33 +/- 2 years
Comparison
Cold exposure vs Baseline/warm environment
Design
Other
Follow-up
Acute
Authors
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May link cold exposure to thrombotic risk via sympathetic activation; hypothesis-generating and requires validation in larger cohorts.
Does cold exposure increase blood pressure, platelet function, and sympathetic nervous activity in healthy male volunteers?
Cold exposure increases sympathetic nervous activity and platelet function, providing a possible physiological mechanism for the increased risk of thrombosis in cold weather.
Kawahara et al. (1989) studied this question.
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