ArticleAmerican journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology2023
Adjusting for muscle strength and body size attenuates sex differences in the exercise pressor reflex in young adults.
Article in American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Innovative Dose-Response Assessment of the Metaboreflex With Indirect Control of Intramuscular Metabolic Perturbation in Humans.Acta physiologica (Oxford, England) · 2026Trial
- Magnitude and variability of blood pressure and renal vascular conductance responses to postural changes, exercise, and cold in black adults: A pilot study.Physiological reports · 2026Article
- No difference in mean middle cerebral artery blood velocity responses between lower- and upper-body unilateral resistance exercise in untrained individuals.Experimental physiology · 2025Article
- Does hypertension exacerbate the age-related exaggerated pressor response to dynamic exercise during post-exercise muscle ischemia?Physiological reports · 2025Article
- Larger reductions in blood pressure during post-exercise standing, but not middle cerebral artery blood velocity, in resistance-trained versus untrained individuals.Experimental physiology · 2025Article
- The effects of habitual resistance exercise training on cerebrovascular responses to lower body dynamic resistance exercise: A cross-sectional study.Experimental physiology · 2024Article
- The influence of oral contraceptives on the exercise pressor reflex in the upper and lower body.Physiological reports · 2024Article
- Inverse Association between Exercising Blood Pressure Response and Left Ventricular Chamber Size and Mass in Women Who Habitually Resistance Train.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Various modalities of resistance exercise promote similar acute cognitive improvements and hemodynamic increases in young, healthy adults.Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior · 2024Article
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Abstract
Females typically exhibit lower blood pressure (BP) during exercise than males. However, recent findings indicate that adjusting for maximal strength attenuates sex differences in BP during isometric handgrip (HG) exercise and postexercise ischemia (PEI; metaboreflex isolation). In addition, body size is associated with HG strength but its contribution to sex differences in exercising BP is less appreciated. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine whether adjusting for strength and body size would attenuate sex differences in BP during HG and PEI. We obtained beat-to-beat BP in 110 participants (36 females, 74 males) who completed 2 min of isometric HG exercise at 40% of their maximal voluntary contraction followed by 3 min of PEI. In a subset (11 females, 17 males), we collected muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA). Statistical analyses included independent
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