Why the study?
Does normotensive pregnancy alter neurovascular transduction and sympathetic nerve activity during cold pressor stimulation compared to nonpregnant women?
Does normotensive pregnancy alter neurovascular transduction and sympathetic nerve activity during cold pressor stimulation compared to nonpregnant women?
Normotensive pregnancy is associated with reduced neurovascular transduction, which dissociates sympathetic outflow from hemodynamic outcomes even during heightened sympathetic activation.
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Hypothesis-generating for sympathetic control in pregnancy; leaves open any role in gestational hypertension.
Usselman et al. (2015) studied this question.
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