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Do female nurses have different orthostatic tolerance and hemodynamic responses to a head-up tilt test compared to healthy controls?
Do female nurses have different orthostatic tolerance and hemodynamic responses to a head-up tilt test compared to healthy controls?
Nurses demonstrate higher orthostatic tolerance during head-up tilt testing, likely mediated by compensatory mechanisms outside the arterial baroreflex.
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May indicate compensatory sympathetic mechanisms enhancing orthostatic tolerance in nurses; hypothesis-generating for autonomic adaptations in shift workers.
Onizuka et al. (2015) studied this question.
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