Vishwajeet Shankhwar, Janez Urvec, Bianca Steuber, Karin Schmid Zalaudek, Adam Salon, Anna Hawliczek, Andrej Bergauer, Khawla Aljasmi, Asrar Abdi, Asmaa Naser, Maya Himeidi, Hanan Alsuwaidi, Stefan Du Plessis, Alawi Alsheikh-Ali, Catherine Kellett, Riad Bayoumi, Andrew Phillip Blaber, Nandu Goswami
BACKGROUND: Estrogen and progesterone levels undergo changes throughout the menstrual cycle. Existing literature regarding the effect of menstrual phases on cardiovascular and autonomic regulation during central hypovolemia is contradictory. AIMS AND STUDY: This study aims to explore the influence of menstrual phases on cardiovascular and autonomic responses in both resting and during the central hypovolemia induced by lower body negative pressure (LBNP). This is a companion paper, in which data across the menstrual phases from healthy young females, whose results are reported in Shankwar et al...
2024: Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine