ArticleJournal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)2022
Repeated warm water baths decrease sympathetic activity in humans.
Article in Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06932250 (Vascular and Neural Mechanisms of Chronic Leg Heating in Pregnant Women With Obesity), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Vascular and Neural Mechanisms of Chronic Leg Heating in Pregnant Women With Obesity
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- The effects of hot-water immersion on cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory health of healthy adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Physiological reports · 2026Pooled it
- Noradrenergic regulation of skeletal muscle oxygen pressures: Impact of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and heat therapy.Experimental physiology · 2026Article
- Heat Therapy: Targeting Health, Disease, and Disability.Comprehensive Physiology · 2026Review
- Warm sitz bath as an adjunctive therapy for distal ureteral calculi ≤5 mm: a prospective study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Cold and hot consumption and health outcomes among US Asian and White populations.The British journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- Effects of thermal interventions on skeletal muscle adaptations and regeneration: perspectives on epigenetics: a narrative review.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Review
- Sympathetic nervous activation and hypertension.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2023Article
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Abstract
Acute whole body heat stress evokes sympathetic activation. However, the chronic effects of repeated moderate heat exposure (RMHE) on muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) in healthy individuals remain unclear. We performed RMHE with 4 wk (5 days/wk) of warm baths (∼40°C, for 30 min) in nine healthy older (59 ± 2 yr) volunteers. Hemodynamic variables and MSNA were examined before, 1 day after, and 1 wk following 4 wk of RMHE in a laboratory at ∼23°C. Cold pressor test (CPT) and handgrip (HG) exercise were performed during the tests. Under normothermic condition, the resting MSNA burst rate (prior, post, post 1-wk: 31.6 ± 2.0, 25.2 ± 2.0, and 27.7 ± 1.7 bursts/min;
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