The sex differences in cardiovascular system responses to a mild noise stress are established using the physiological and the dynamic systems theory methods. Lower levels of basal systolic arterial pressure and higher rates of its dropping and normalization under influence and after its cessation are typical for women. There are no hypertensive responses to stresses in women in contrast to men. The normalized entropy of the ECG signal, describing the physiological variability, increases in women and decreases in men. The advantages of female cardiovascular system response to mild stresses are discussed.

Date Published: 2 June 1993
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 1981, Optical Methods of Biomedical Diagnostics and Therapy, (2 June 1993); doi: 10.1117/12.146462

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1981:
Optical Methods of Biomedical Diagnostics and Therapy
Valery V. Tuchin, Editor(s)