Gender differences in autonomic cardiovascular regulation: spectral, hormonal, and hemodynamic indexes

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作者
Evans, JM [1 ]
Ziegler, MG
Patwardhan, AR
Ott, JB
Kim, CS
Leonelli, FM
Knapp, CF
机构
[1] Univ Kentucky, Ctr Biomed Engn, Lexington, KY 40506 USA
[2] Univ Kentucky, Div Cardiol, Lexington, KY 40506 USA
[3] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Med, San Diego, CA 92103 USA
关键词
catecholamines; spectral power; stroke volume; peripheral resistance; atropine; propranolol; autonomic balance; skin perfusion; arterial pressure; heart rate;
D O I
10.1152/jappl.2001.91.6.2611
中图分类号
Q4 [生理学];
学科分类号
071003 ;
摘要
The autonomic nervous system drives variability in heart rate, vascular tone, cardiac ejection, and arterial pressure, but gender differences in autonomic regulation of the latter three parameters are not well documented. In addition to mean values, we used spectral analysis to calculate variability in arterial pressure, heart rate (R-R interval, RRI), stroke volume, and total peripheral resistance (TPR) and measured circulating levels of catecholamines and pancreatic polypeptide in two groups of 25 +/- 1.2-yr-old, healthy men and healthy follicular-phase women (40 total subjects, 10 men and 10 women per group). Group 1 subjects were studied supine, before and after beta- and muscarinic autonomic blockades, administered singly and together on separate days of study. Group 2 subjects were studied supine and drug free with the additional measurement of skin perfusion. In the unblocked state, we found that circulating levels of epinephrine and total spectral power of stroke volume, TPR, and skin perfusion ranged from two to six times greater in men than in women. The difference (men > women) in spectral power of TPR was maintained after beta- and muscarinic blockades, suggesting that the greater oscillations of vascular resistance in men may be alpha -adrenergically mediated. Men exhibited muscarinic buffering of mean TPR whereas women exhibited beta -adrenergic buffering of mean TPR as well as TPR and heart rate oscillations. Women had a greater distribution of RRI power in the breathing frequency range and a less negative slope of In RRI power vs. In frequency, both indicators that parasympathetic stimuli were the dominant influence on women's heart rate variability. The results of our study suggest a predominance of sympathetic vascular regulation in men compared with a dominant parasympathetic influence on heart rate regulation in women.
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