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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2010 May 24;56(1):10–16. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.109.140186

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Relationship between several indices of sympathetic neural activity and the fall in blood pressure during ganglionic blockade in a combined cohort of young and old males. The left panel shows that individuals with higher baseline levels of MSNA experience a larger fall in blood pressure during ganglionic blockade. The right panel is a similar comparison between the change in blood pressure and plasma norepinephrine (PNE). Together these data show that individuals with high levels of baseline sympathetic activity have increased autonomic support of their blood pressure. (Figure adapted from ref 14)