Hemodynamic responses to the cold pressor test in individuals with metabolic syndrome: a case-control study in a multiracial sample of adults.

ABSTRACT: Previous research shows that exercise pressor and metaboreflex responses are significantly exaggerated in individuals with metabolic syndrome, but it is unclear if these exaggerated responses extend to the cold pressor test (CPT). This study tested the hypothesis that, contrary to previously reported exaggerated responses during exercise, CPT responses would not be significantly exaggerated in individuals with MetS compared to matched controls. Eleven individuals with MetS and eleven control participants matched by age, race, sex, and ethnicity completed a cardiometabolic prescreening and a CPT. Each CPT required participants to immerse their hand in ice water for two minutes while beat-by-beat blood pressure, heart rate (HR), and leg blood flow (LBF) were continuously measured. Leg vascul

SUBMITTER: Stavres J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12282098 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature