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Vasoconstrictor Reserve and Sympathetic Neural Control of Orthostasis

Qi Fu, Sarah Witkowski, Benjamin D. Levine

Circulation · 2004 · 130 citations · 44 references

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Abstract

These results support our hypothesis and suggest that vasoconstrictor capability is a contributor to orthostatic tolerance in humans. Vasoconstrictor reserve therefore may be one mechanism underlying individual variability in orthostatic intolerance.

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