Cardiovascular, hemodynamic, neuroendocrine, and inflammatory markers in women with and without vasomotor symptoms.
Cardiovascular, hemodynamic, neuroendocrine, and inflammatory markers in women with and without vasomotor symptoms.
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患有和没有血管舒缩症状的女性的心血管,血液动力学,神经内分泌和炎症标志物。
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10.1097/gme.0000000000000689
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2016-11
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Girdler SS
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Gordon JL;Rubinow DR;Thurston RC;Paulson J;Schmidt PJ;Girdler SS
Vasomotor symptoms (VMS) may be associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. One candidate mechanism may involve alterations in physiological responses to stress. The current study therefore examined the relationship between self-reported VMS bother and cardiovascular, hemodynamic, neuroendocrine and inflammatory responses to an acute psychosocial stress protocol. One hundred and eighty-six women in the menopause transition or early postmenopause (age 45-60) provided the data for this report. Subjective hot flash and night sweat bother was assessed using the Greene Climacteric Scale. Women also underwent a stressor battery involving a speech and a mental arithmetic task while cardiovascular, hemodynamic, neuroendocrine and inflammatory responses were assessed. Repeated measures regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between self-reported VMS and physiologic responses to the stressor. In multivariate analyses adjusting for potential confounders, self-reported hot flash bother was associated with lower overall cardiac index and stroke volume index and higher overall vascular resistance index and levels of the inflammatory cytokine interleukin-6. Hot flash bother also tended to be associated with higher overall cortisol levels and higher baseline levels of plasma norepinephrine. Night sweat bother, on the other hand, was associated with higher overall cortisol levels and tended to be associated with higher interleukin-6. Self-reported VMS bother is associated with an unfavorable hemodynamic and neuroendocrine profile characterized by increased hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and central sympathetic activation, inflammation and vasoconstriction. Further research investigating this profile in relation to VMS, as well as the potential health implications of this association, are warranted.