title: Gender differences in the relationship between resting heart rate variability and 24-hour blood pressure variability.
abstract: The study explored the relationship between time- and frequency-domain indices of cardiac autonomic control and 24 h blood pressure variability (BPV) in a sample of healthy men and women. Vagally mediated cardiac control was inversely related to 24 h BPV, and measures of cardiac autonomic control were better predictors of systolic BPV in men and better predictors of diastolic BPV in women. These findings may help researchers to understand the disparity in cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality between men and women.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , The Ohio State University , Columbus , OH , USA.
authors.forename: Julian F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Thayer
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychological Medicine , The University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand.
authors.forename: John J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Sollers
authors.affiliation: c Department of Psychology , Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , Blacksburg , VA , USA.
authors.forename: Bruce H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Friedman
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , The Ohio State University , Columbus , OH , USA.
authors.forename: Julian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koenig
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D002940:Circadian Rhythm / Q000502:physiology*; D003971:Diastole / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology*; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D013599:Systole / Q000502:physiology; D014630:Vagus Nerve / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Blood pressure variability; gender; heart rate variability