ArticleJournal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR2014
Study of cardiovascular reactivity to mental stress in different phases of menstrual cycle.
Article in Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Affective Sensitivity to Ovarian Steroid Hormone Flux Across the Menstrual Cycle: Manifestations and Biopsychosocial Risk Factors.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2026Review
- Exploring psychophysiological stress variability across menstrual phases: insights from a tertiary care centre in eastern Uttar Pradesh.International journal of physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology · 2026Article
- Cardiovascular Function in Different Phases of the Menstrual Cycle in Healthy Women of Reproductive Age.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Effect of the menstrual cycle on circulation during combined spinal-epidural anaesthesia.BMC anesthesiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundIt is a well known fact that normally female sex hormone levels fluctuate during the menstrual cycle. The presence of receptors for these hormones on both heart and blood vessels may also hint at variations in physiological functions during menstrual cycle. So this study was an attempt to determine whether the follicular and luteal phases of menstrual cycle are characterized by variations in cardiovascular parameters in the resting state and also examine changes in cardiovascular reactivity to mental stress challenge during both the phases of menstrual cycle. METHODOLOGY: Thirty healthy females in the age group of 18-25 years with regular menstrual cycles fulfilling the inclusion criteria were examined for cardiovascular parameters (heart rate and blood pressures) at rest and their reactivity to mental stress during the follicular and luteal phase and were compared by using paired t-test. A p-value of <0.05 was considered as statistically significant.
resultsThe women included in the study produced the well known reactivity to mental stress, in terms of blood pressure and heart rate increases, but the two phases of menstrual cycle were indistinguishable in so far as reactivity patterns were considered. The resting values of these cardiovascular parameters were also alike during the two phases.
conclusionWe were unable to unearth any differences in resting and reactivity values of cardiovascular parameters during the course of a normal menstrual cycle. This shows that stress reactivity variations during different phases of menstrual cycle may not be due to variations in hormonal levels per se, but due to collusion of hormonal variations and unknown genetic influences.
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