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Effects Of Gender And Hypovolemia On Sympathetic Neural Responses To Orthostatic Stress, Qi Fu, Sarah Witkowski, Kazunobu Okazaki, Benjamin D. Levine
Effects Of Gender And Hypovolemia On Sympathetic Neural Responses To Orthostatic Stress, Qi Fu, Sarah Witkowski, Kazunobu Okazaki, Benjamin D. Levine
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We tested the hypothesis that women have blunted sympathetic neural responses to orthostatic stress compared with men, which may be elicited under hypovolemic conditions. Muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) and hemodynamics were measured in eight healthy young women and seven men in supine position and during 6 min of 60° head-up tilt (HUT) under normovolemic and hypovolemic conditions (randomly), with ∼4-wk interval. Acute hypovolemia was produced by diuretic (furosemide) administration ∼2 h before testing. Orthostatic tolerance was determined by progressive lower body negative pressure to presyncope. We found that furosemide produced an ∼13% reduction in plasma volume, causing a similar …