Left Ventricular, Peripheral Vascular, and Neurohumoral Responses to Mental Stress in Normal Middle-Aged Men and Women

Abstract

Mental stress in the laboratory results in a substantial sympathetic response in normal middle-aged and older men and women, but EF commonly falls because of a concomitant rise in afterload. These results provide essential age- and sex-matched reference data for studies of mental stress-induced ischemia in patients with coronary artery disease.