ArticleThe Journal of physiology2016
Rate of rise in diastolic blood pressure influences vascular sympathetic response to mental stress.
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- Blood pressure reactivity at onset of mental stress determines sympathetic vascular response in young adults.Physiological reports · 2018Article
- The effects of audiovisual distraction on the muscle sympathetic responses to experimental muscle pain.Experimental brain research · 2018Article
- Relative burst amplitude of muscle sympathetic nerve activity is an indicator of altered sympathetic outflow in chronic anxiety.Journal of neurophysiology · 2018Article
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- The Stability and Repeatability of Spontaneous Sympathetic Baroreflex Sensitivity in Healthy Young Individuals.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2018Article
- Interindividual variability in muscle sympathetic responses to static handgrip in young men: evidence for sympathetic responder types?American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2018Article
- Sympathetic neural reactivity to mental stress differs in black and non-Hispanic white adults.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2018Article
- Intact blood pressure, but not sympathetic, responsiveness to sympathoexcitatory stimuli in a patient with unilateral carotid body resection.Physiological reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
key pointsResearch indicates that individuals may experience a rise (positive responders) or fall (negative responders) in muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) during mental stress. In this study, we examined the early blood pressure responses (including the peak, time of peak and rate of rise in blood pressure) to mental stress in positive and negative responders. Negative MSNA responders to mental stress exhibit a more rapid rise in diastolic pressure at the onset of the stressor, suggesting a baroreflex-mediated suppression of MSNA. In positive responders there is a more sluggish rise in blood pressure during mental stress, which appears to be MSNA-driven. This study suggests that whether MSNA has a role in the pressor response is dependent upon the reactivity of blood pressure early in the task. ABSTRACT: Research indicates that individuals may experience a rise (positive responders) or fall (negative responders) in muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) during mental stress. The aim was to examine the early blood pressure response to stress in positive and negative responders and thus its influence on the direction of change in MSNA. Blood pressure and MSNA were recorded continuously in 21 healthy young males during 2 min mental stressors (mental arithmetic, Stroop test) and physical stressors (cold pressor, handgrip exercise, post-exercise ischaemia). Participants were classified as negative or positive responders according to the direction of the mean change in MSNA during the stressor tasks. The peak changes, time of peak and rate of changes in blood pressure were compared between groups. During mental arithmetic negative responders experienced a significantly greater rate of rise in diastolic blood pressure in the first minute of the task (1.3 ± 0.5 mmHg s
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