ArticleFrontiers in physiology2018
The Female Heart: Sex Differences in the Dynamics of ECG in Response to Stress.
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- Quantitative meta-analysis of heart rate variability finds reduced parasympathetic cardiac tone in women compared to men during laboratory-based social stress.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Analysis of stress responses in medical students during simulated pericardiocentesis training using virtual reality and 3D-printed mannequin.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
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- Gut microbial diversity and inferred capacity to produce short-chain fatty acids are associated with acute stress reactivity in healthy adults.Neurobiology of stress · 2026Article
- Repeatability of heart-rate variability and baroreflex sensitivity as metrics of cardiac autonomic function during exercise in young females and males.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Social conflict imagery induces stress, social and physical pain: sex differences in autonomic and affective responses and pathways to resilience and wellbeing.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Fractal correlation properties of heart rate variability and respiratory frequency as measures of endurance exercise durability.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Article
- Neurocardiac signatures of acute mental stress: a sex-comparative study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Music mindfulness acutely modulates autonomic activity and improves psychological state in anxiety and depression.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Resting Heart Rate and Associations With Clinical Measures From the Project Baseline Health Study: Observational Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Observational
- Heart rate variability as a dynamic marker of surgeons' stress during vascular surgery.BJS open · 2024Article
- Sex differences in estimates of cardiac autonomic function using heart rate variability: effects of dietary capsaicin.European journal of applied physiology · 2023Article
- Deep Learning Algorithms for Estimation of Demographic and Anthropometric Features from Electrocardiograms.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Validation of a non-linear index of heart rate variability to determine aerobic and anaerobic thresholds during incremental cycling exercise in women.European journal of applied physiology · 2023Article
- Heart rate variability responses to cognitive stress in fibromyalgia are characterised by inadequate autonomous system stress responses: a clinical trial.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Psychophysiological reactions during the trauma-film paradigm and their predictive value for intrusions.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
- ECG and EEG based detection and multilevel classification of stress using machine learning for specified genders: A preliminary study.PloS one · 2023Article
- Association between distinct coping styles and heart rate variability changes to an acute psychosocial stress task.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Sex differences in the study of the human physiological response to mental stress are often erroneously ignored. To this end, we set out to show that our understanding of the stress response is fundamentally altered once sex differences are taken into account. This is achieved by comparing the heart rate variability (HRV) signals acquired during mental maths tests from ten females and ten males of similar maths ability; all females were in the follicular phase of their menstrual cycle. For rigor, the HRV signals from this pilot study were analyzed using temporal, spectral and nonlinear signal processing techniques, which all revealed significant statistical differences between the sexes, with the stress-induced increases in the heart rates from the males being significantly larger than those from the females (
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